Q: What are they talking about?
10. W: Can you tell me where to get off?
M: Its the next stop and one.
Q: What does the man mean?
Section B Passage One
One of the most successful singers of the twentieth century.
Ella Fitzgerald has made several different styles of her own.
She was born in Virginia
but was brought up in an orphanage in Yonkers,New York.
Chick Webb spotted her in an amateur competition when she was sixteen.
He engaged her to sing with his bane
and when he died in 1939, she took over.
Unlike bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald taught herself
the sentimental music so popular in the 1930s--songs like
My Heart Belong to Daddy--and her recordings became best-seller
During the 1940s she developed her own shouting singing
--a breathless nonsense-syllable style
--for songs like Flying Home and Lady Be Good.
Ella fitzgerald was the perfect musical partner for her friend
the trumpeter Louis Armstrong matching him in warmth and artistry.
I just like music, She has said,To me,its a story.
Theres only one thing better than singing...its more singing.
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