Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song - Hardcoverby Judith Tick (Author) Ella Fitzgerald (1917 1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long enduring mysteries. Archival research and in depth family interviews shed new light on the