Ray Brown Jr.
Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
Ella Fitzgerald was born to unmarried parents, and before she was a year old her father William Fitzgerald, a wagon driver, left the family. When Ella was 15 her mother Temperence "Tempie" Williams died in 1932 in a car crash, and soon afterwards Ella moved out of her stepfather's home.
Well they say Ella was married three times she got married to chuck webb a drummer for a band she was in that was her first and she got married again to the famous bass player Ray Brown and her last marriage was with Benny Kornegay a drug dealer
Ella Fitzgerald was an orphan so she didn't know what her family was like
to become a singer
She married Ben Kornegay
Xavier Wilkins
she look up and said yes
Ray Brown Jr.
piano lessons, public school music system, and high school music courses
Ella had heart surgery they found out she had diabetes. Because of the disease it left her blind and she had both legs amputated.
Ella Fitzgeralds early years were hard years as she came from a black family, that had many children it was a tough life for many blacks those years. She grew up in the city of Newport.
well technically there is no actual difference it like all in the mind just feel the music man and you will find yourself
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Ella Fitzgerald was born to unmarried parents, and before she was a year old her father William Fitzgerald, a wagon driver, left the family. When Ella was 15 her mother Temperence "Tempie" Williams died in 1932 in a car crash, and soon afterwards Ella moved out of her stepfather's home.
Her role model was Connee Boswell and tried to follow in her footsteps in becoming a professional singer. After she became a professional singer she considered Connee as her, " First singing teacher."