American jazz and song vocalist, Ella Fitzgerald, interpreted much of the Great American Songbook.  She was loved by a wide and diverse audience in the United States making her the most popular female jazz singer for more than a century.  With her flexible, wide-ranging, ageless voice, she mastered scat singing, turned it into a form of art and won 13 Grammy awards.  Lady Ella was also known was truly the “First Lady of Song” and “Queen of Jazz”, selling over 40 million albums.