"First Lady of Song" Ella Fitzgerald becomes first Black woman to win Grammy on this day in 1959
Published: May 4, 2024, 1:38 a.m.
"First Lady of Song" Ella Fitzgerald became the first Black woman to win a Grammy at the Recording Academy’s inaugural awards show on May 4, 1959.
Ella Fitzgerald sings the National Anthem prior to Super Bowl VI at Tulane Stadium between the Miami Dolphins and the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys defeated the Dolphins 24-3.Yonkers rapper Stonewall Odom, aka Big Jinx, cloys with another Yonkers singer, Ella Fitzgerald, at the Yonkers train station.A Grammy award presented in 1983 to the \"Queen of Jazz,\" Ella Fitzgerald is on display at the \"Barbie You Can Be Anything: The Experience\" exhibit at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The exhibition runs Aug. 1, 2020, through the spring of 2021.
Finals 2Ella Fitzgerald stayed at The Cavalier Hotel, too.
636697782819933759-Cavalier46.JPFrank Zappa, left to right, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald all played the Lawrence Memorial Chapel in Appleton in the 1960s.
Chapel ArtistThe upstairs jazz lounge is a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald and, as such, Dave Meister commissioned a mural of New York City, where the Queen of Jazz got her start.
Img 542A sculpture of Ella Fitzgerald outside of the Yonkers train station, created by sculptor and Yonkers resident Vinnie Bagwell, is pictured Jan. 29, 2020.
Vinnie Bagwel\"Queen of Jazz\" Ella Fitzgerald is immortalized as a Barbie Doll in the \"Barbie You Can Be Anything: The Experience\" exhibit at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Tuesday, July 28, 2020. The exhibition runs Aug. 1, 2020, through the spring of 2021.
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