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 Ella Fitzgerald was born April 25, 1917. She was born in Newport News, Virginia. Her two nicknames were "Lady Ella" and "First Lady of Song". Ella was a jazz vocalist. She also won thirteen Grammy Awards. She was also awarded the Natoinal medal of Art by Ronald Reagan. Then she was awarded the Presedential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush. In Ella's early life, she wanted to be a dancer, even thogh she loved jazz recordings by Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, and The Boswell Sisters. Ella idolized the lead singer Connee Boswell, later saying, "my mother brought home one of her records, and i fell in loove with it...... then i tried to sound just like her."