Sunday, February 28, 2010

AS SEEN ON TV: LADY ELLA!

We began Black History Month with a famous American black woman, and we're going out the same way.....

ELLA FITZGERALD

AS SEEN IN:
"Pirates Of Silicon Valley"

AS PLAYED BY:
Cardella Di Milo


From Wikipedia:
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
She is widely considered one of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook. Over a recording career that lasted 59 years, she was the winner of 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Art by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.
BCnU!

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