Ella Fitzgerald - Just One of Those Things
'One day I'll be famous, 'Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) said to a school friend. And because she did, as a celebrated jazz singer, the pronunciation has now found its way to the portrait Ella Fitzgerald: Just One Of Those Things (71 min).). That success was not obvious, as it immediately becomes clear: Ella grew up in poverty, faced with racism on a daily basis and lost her mother at the age of 13. From a reeducating institution, where she was “unmanageable,” she would still grow into an icon of American music.
Ella was able to improvise with her voice as the very best bebopper. If she wasn't just herself. That didn't mean she was welcome everywhere. In segregated America, a black singer couldn't perform anywhere at the time. Sometimes Marilyn Monroe even had to come in handy to allow Ella to enter her natural habitat, the stage. In the end, she felt the need to speak out in public. 'Would they break my records now??“she added, with the necessary self-mockery, during the interview.
That's what it would — because of blunt luck, or stupid bad luck.? — never come. Ella Fitzgerald could just go on to the end with what she had always done: singing so easily, purely on talent, that everyone was totally tapped in no time.
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