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Early Hardship Couldn't Muffle Ella Fitzgerald's Joy

Music was always her refuge, but Ella Fitzgerald never thought she would be a singer until she won an Amateur Night contest at the Apollo Theater in 1934. (The Rudy Calvo Collection Cache Agency)
Music was always her refuge, but Ella Fitzgerald never thought she would be a singer until she won an Amateur Night contest at the Apollo Theater in 1934. (The Rudy Calvo Collection Cache Agency)

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