List of awards and nominations received by Ella Fitzgerald
This article contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.
Awards and accolades
Awards, citations and honors
- Honorary membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha (1960)
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers highest honor (1965)
- Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement Award (1967)
- Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Honorary chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Foundation (1967)
- Award of Distinction from the National Association of Sickle cell Diseases (1976)
- Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman (1976)
- Kennedand Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
- Inductee into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
- Will Rogers award from the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association (1980)
- Lord & Taylor Rose award for outstanding contribution to music (1980)
- Doctor of Human Letters from Talladega College of Alabama (1980)
- Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year from Harvard (1982)
- George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America (1983)
- National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award (1985)
- National Medal of Art awarded by President Ronald Reagan (1987)
- UCLA Medal for Musical Achievements (1987)
- NAACP Image Award (1988)
- The first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor (1989)
- Order of Arts and Letters, France (1990)
- Inductee into the National Women's Hall of Fame (1995)[1]
- Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President George H. W. Bush
- National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award
- Pied Piper Award
- George and Ira Gershwin Award for Outstanding Achievement
- Honorary doctorates from Harvard University, Yale University, Dartmouth, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Howard University and Princeton
- VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll rank #13 (1999 – posthumous)
Grammy Awards
Fitzgerald won fourteen Grammy awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 1978
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook Kyndal
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
- Ella Fitzgerald for But Not for Me (from Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Lightly (1959)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife (1960)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Mack the Knife (from Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife) (1959)
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (1962)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (1976)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Fine and Mellow (1979)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
- Ella Fitzgerald for A Perfect Match (1980)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
- Ella Fitzgerald for Digital III at Montreux (1981)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
- Ella Fitzgerald for The Best Is Yet to Come (1983)
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:
- Ella Fitzgerald for All That Jazz (1990)
Grammy Award for Best Historical Album:
- Ella Fitzgerald for The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks (1995)
Grammy Hall of Fame
Recordings of Ella Fitzgerald were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
Grammy Hall of Fame[2] | |||||
Year recorded | Title | Genre | Label | Year inducted | Notes |
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1960 | "How High the Moon" | Jazz (Single) | Decca | 2002 | |
1958 | Porgy and Bess | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 2001 | with Louis Armstrong |
1956 | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 2000 | |
1957 | Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 1999 | |
1960 | Ella in Berlin | Jazz (Album) | Verve | 1999 | |
1938 | "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" | Jazz (Single) | Decca | 1987 | with Chick Webb and His Orchestra |
References
- ^ National Women's Hall of Fame, Ella Fitzgerald
- ^ Grammy Hall of Fame Database Archived July 7, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
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albums
- Ella Sings Gershwin
- Songs in a Mellow Mood
- Lullabies of Birdland
- For Sentimental Reasons
- Miss Ella Fitzgerald & Mr Gordon Jenkins Invite You to Listen and Relax
- Sweet and Hot
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
- Ella and Louis
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book
- Ella and Louis Again
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
- Like Someone in Love
- Ella Swings Lightly
- Porgy and Bess
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book
- Get Happy!
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
- Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
- Hello, Love
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from "Let No Man Write My Epitaph"
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book
- Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
- Rhythm Is My Business
- Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
- Ella Swings Gently with Nelson
- Ella Sings Broadway
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book
- Ella and Basie!
- These Are the Blues
- Hello, Dolly!
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book
- Ella at Duke's Place
- Whisper Not
- Brighten the Corner
- Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas
- 30 by Ella
- Misty Blue
- Ella
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It)
- Ella Loves Cole
- Take Love Easy
- Fine and Mellow
- Ella and Oscar
- Fitzgerald and Pass... Again
- Lady Time
- Dream Dancing
- A Classy Pair
- Ella Abraça Jobim
- The Best Is Yet to Come
- Speak Love
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Easy Living
- All That Jazz
albums
- At the Opera House
- Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
- Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert
- Ella Fitzgerald Live at Mister Kelly's
- Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife
- Ella in Hollywood
- Ella Returns to Berlin
- Twelve Nights in Hollywood
- Ella at Juan-Les-Pins
- Ella in Hamburg
- Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur
- Sunshine of Your Love
- Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall
- The Stockholm Concert, 1966
- Ella in Budapest
- Ella à Nice
- Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72
- Ella in London
- Montreux '75
- Montreux '77
- Digital III at Montreux
- A Perfect Match
- Sophisticated Lady
albums
- Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues
- One O'Clock Jump
- Back on the Block
- The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books
- Pure Ella
- The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve
- Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1
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albums
- Ride 'Em Cowboy
- Pete Kelly's Blues
- St. Louis Blues
- Ray Brown (second husband)
- Ray Brown Jr. (son)
- Louis Armstrong collaborations
- A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
- Marilyn and Ella (2008 play)
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