Life and Times of Ella
     Fitzgerald

             Ella Fitzgerald was born in 1917 in
              Newport News, Virginia.  She was 18
              years old when she started singing.
              he wrote "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," in
              1938.  This was the first song that
              she wrote on her own.  She was
              known as the First Lady of Jazz.  Ella
              Fitzgerald died in 1996.

 
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