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The Influential Women in Music series continues with two soulful artists.
Born in Newport News, Virginia in 1917,
Ella Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer who has gone by various names such as Queen of Jazz and First Lady of Song. Fitzgerald was known to have a diverse voice as she was able to move between singing “sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in the orchestra.” Ella Fitzgerald won 13 Grammys and would sell over 40 million records. Fitzgerald released her first album
Ella Sings Gershwin, now called
Pure Ella, in 1950. In 1987, she received the National Medal of Art by President
Tell me about the development of your role.
When I auditioned for Bella, it was a featured ensemble role, with a few lines here and there. I went in for the general chorus calls. They called me back, and that was the first time Diane Paulus was in the room. I got the sides, and it was pretty much the same scene that you have now; it s a big scene where Bella discloses her sexual assault. I had never read anything like it. I remember thinking, I know this girl and I ve been this girl and I ve never seen what I had felt. It was so perfectly written, and Diablo Cody has this miraculous way of exploring complicated topics that can be described as a gray area, but in reality is just the truth of being a person.
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