Ella fitzgerald biography youtube duchesses

Since Ella Fitzgerald’s passing in 1996, there’s now a major biography that shows the depth of her character and her lasting impact on American Music.

Written by Judith Tick an authority on American music and women in music, Judith is professor emerita at Northeastern University with award winning books and articles on music to her credit.

Ella Fitzgerald throughout her life, was a very private person, giving little information about herself and her troubled youth.

With Tick’s book the author has managed to incorporate new information and new little known material on Ella’s life and cultural contributions. Tick has been able to achieve this through sources unavailable to past biographers, notably from resources of the 1930s and 1940s such as African American newspapers, some digitized as recently as 2010.

The author lovingly explains her mother’s love for Ella’s music, her mother