Fitzgerald, Ella

1. A twentieth-century African-American jazz and popular singer of the twentieth century, known for the clarity of her voice and her ability to interpret the works of a great variety of songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington , George Gershwin , Cole Porter , and Richard Rodgers .

Example Sentences

You had Sinatra; you had Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday; you had Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzie Gillespie, Miles Davis.

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