Ella Fitzgerald was born in 1917. She was a singer during the mid 1930's up until her death in 1996. Fitzgerald went to a compition to dance not sing, but when she went on stage her legs froze. She was nervous, so she just begun to sing. She won the competition with her song. Her voice spanned three octaves. She became known as "The First Lady of Swing". As her voice get better she was then named the "Queen of Scat". Big name composers loved her voice and often wrote music for her one of them was Ira Gershwin.
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