After Webb’s death in 1939, she led his orchestra for three years before launching a highly successful solo career. Fitzgerald soon secured her standing as a leading swing-era performer and scored a major hit with “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938). She was just a teenager when her victory in an amateur contest at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater led to the opportunity to sing with Chick Webb’s orchestra in 1935. Object Details Artist Herman Leonard, 1923 - 2010 Sitter Ella Fitzgerald, - Exhibition Label Hailed as the “First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald topped DownBeat magazine’s annual readers’ poll as the best female vocalist for seventeen consecutive years (1953–70). Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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