Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald would be 96 years old today. Take a look back at her career.
Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
Louis Armstrong, left, makes a guest appearance as Ella Fitzgerald opens at the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, March 30, 1971. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
Singer Ella Fitzgerald, left, receives her seventh Grammy Award as top female vocalist for 1962 in Las Vegas on May 17, 1963. Van Alexander, President of the Hollywood chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Science, flew to Las Vegas to present the award. (AP Photo)
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Famous singer Ella Fitzgerald, attending the International jazz festival in Cannes, with French poet Jean Cocteau she met in Villefranche-sur-Mer on July 11, 1958, when she came to visit Saint Pierre Chapel; he decorated on July 10. (AP Photo)
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Ella Fitzergerald appears on stage at "Bal Pare" a top social event in Munich, Germany on Jan. 21, 1967, during the carnival season. (AP Photo/Klaus Frings)
Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald smiles as she walks at the fashionable Via Veneto in Rome, April 8, 1961. Ella is on a tour of Europe for a series of performances with the "Jazz At The Philharmonic" band. (AP Photo/Umberto Savemini)
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American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald leaves the French Ministry of Culture after she was invested as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French Minister of Culture Jack Lang, May 29, 1990. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)
Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
Famed jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald performs at the Empire Room at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, March 30, 1971. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald, 70-year-old "First Lady of Song," belts out a number during her concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, June 26, 1988. The show was part of this year's star-studded, nine-day JVC Jazz Festival, now underway in clubs and concert halls throughout the city. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan)
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Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald sings during an appearance with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the direction of Andre Previn in 1979. The famous songstress sings about a dozen of her most familiar songs from different stages of her career. The show is to be televised on public television on April 3. (AP Photo)
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Famed American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald arrives in Berlin, Feb. 10, 1961, for a one-night performance at West Berlin's Deutschlandhalle. At Tempelhof Airport, Ella, left was greeted by another Ella, West Berlin's senator for youth and sports, Ella Kay. (AP Photo/Werner Kreusch)
Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
Singer Ella Fitzgerald performing in public television special with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 1979. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald belts out a song during appearance in July 1988 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Fitzgerald died on Saturday, June 15, 1996 at the Beverly Hills, Calif., home. She was 78. (AP Photo/Bob Galbraith)
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American President Ronald Reagan presents the National Medal of Arts to jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald at the White House, Washington, June 18, 1987. (AP Photo)
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Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington during news conference in Frankfurt, Jan. 28, 1966, previous to their first performance together on a German Stage. ìThe Dukeî and Ella are starting on a tour throughout Germany. (AP Photo)
Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
A crowd of jazz music lovers, mostly youngsters, are on hand to give a warm welcome to singer Ella Fitzgerald, left, and player-composer Duke Ellington at the airport of Barcelona, Spain on Jan. 25, 1966 when the two arrived from Lisbon, Portugal, for two performances. (AP Photo/Cifra)
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Ella Fitzgerald is joined on stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York City by singer Tonny Bennett April 27,1990. It was Fitzgeralds 73rd birthday. (AP Photo/Mark Phillips)
Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald, the First lady of Song, performs June 25, 1989 at New York's Carnegie Hall. She was one of many jazz greats performing in the JVC Jazz Festival in New York that week. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey)
Happy birthday Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald, left, and Jazz Pianist Billy Taylor talk during funeral services for Jazz Composer Duke Ellington at St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City, Monday, May 27, 1974. Both are longtime friend and colleagues of the Duke, who died on Friday, May 24, from lung cancer and complications with Pneumonia. (AP Photo)
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