ELLA FITZGERALD
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Ella's professional career lasted over 6 decades
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Over this time she made many records with other famous musicians like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong
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Ella won many awards including 13 Grammy Awards and in 1967 won the Grammy for Lifetime Achievement in music. She also recieved the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor
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Her birth town of New Port News, VA. started a music festival in her honor. The Ella Fitzgerald Music Festival is designed to teach the region's youth of the musical legacy of Fitzgerald and jazz.
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