List of awards received by Ella Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald in 1962

This article contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.

## Awards and accolades[edit]

### Awards, citations and honors[edit]

National Medal of Arts

* 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)

Presidential Medal of Freedom

* 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[edit]

Fitzgerald won fourteen Grammy awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 1967.

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:

* Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1958)

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[edit]

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
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[edit]

1. ^ National Women's Hall of Fame, Ella Fitzgerald
2. ^ Grammy Hall of Fame Database Archived July 7, 2015, at the Wayback Machine

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Ella Fitzgerald

* Discography
* Awards

Studio
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

Live
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

Other
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
* Gold

Tribute
albums|

* Dear Ella
* To Ella
* We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song

Filmography|

* Ride 'Em Cowboy
* Pete Kelly's Blues
* St. Louis Blues

Related|

* 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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