Artist

Ella Fitzgerald

Wins

13

Nominations

20

Category

General Jazz Pop

Biography

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

  • Born Ella Jane Fitzgerald on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Died June 15, 1996, in Beverly Hills, California
     
  • Ella Fitzgerald's lone single from her discography to crack the Top 40 on Billboard's Hot 100 was her cover of "Mack The Knife," which reached No. 27 in 1960. Her 1955 album with Peggy Lee, Songs From Pete Kelly's Blues, peaked at No. 7, marking the highest charting album of her career.
     
  • Fitzgerald won her first career GRAMMYs at the 1st GRAMMY Awards: Best Vocal Performance, Female for Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Songbook and Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Individual for Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook.
     
  • In 1967 she performed "Satin Doll" and "Don't Be That Way" for "The Best On Record," a TV special celebrating the 9th GRAMMY Awards. At the 18th GRAMMY Awards in 1976, she made her debut on a live GRAMMY telecast, teaming with Mel Tormé for a demonstration of scat singing in conjunction with presenting the award for Best Jazz Performance By A Group.
     
  • The legendary singer holds the distinction of being the female artist with the most recordings (9) in the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame. Her first recording to be inducted was "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (with Chick Webb And His Orchestra) in 1986.
     
  • Fitzgerald received the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1967, the first woman to be so recognized.
     
  • Founded in 1993, the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation is a supporter of GRAMMY in the Schools, the Recording Academy's umbrella of music education outreach programs.

 

 

All Grammy Awards and Nominations for Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female Winner

    All That Jazz

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female

    Easy Living (Album)

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female Winner

    The Best Is Yet To Come

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female

    A Classy Pair (Album)

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female Winner

    Digital III At Montreaux

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female Winner

    A Perfect Match - Ella And Basie

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Jazz Vocal Album Winner

    Fine And Mellow

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Jazz Vocal Album Winner

    Fitzgerald And Pass...Again

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Female Pop Vocal Performance

    Ella At Duke's Place (Album)

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Female Pop Vocal Performance Winner

    Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson Riddle

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Female Pop Vocal Performance

    Mr. Paganini (Album)

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Record Of The Year

    Mack The Knife (Single)

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Female Pop Vocal Performance Winner

    Mack The Knife

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Female Pop Vocal Performance Winner

    Mack The Knife - Ella In Berlin

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Contemporary Song

    Mack The Knife (Single)

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Female Pop Vocal Performance Winner

    But Not For Me

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Jazz Performance By A Soloist Winner

    Ella Swings Lightly

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Female Pop Vocal Performance Winner

    Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Album Of The Year

    Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book (Album)

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • Best Jazz Performance By A Soloist Winner

    Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book

    Ella Fitzgerald

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