... childhood that began with her parents separating shortly after her birth. With her mother, Fitzgerald moved to Yonkers, New York. They lived there with her mother's boyfriend, Joseph Da Silva. The family grew in 1923 with the arrival of Fitzgerald's ...
... about the exhibition, visit http://s.si.edu/EllaAt100 . Born April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Va., and raised in Yonkers, N.Y., Fitzgerald was orphaned at 15. A regular attendee at amateur musical events, she was "discovered" while signing at ...
Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, VA. She grew up in Yonkers, NY, traveled and performed all over the world, spent her final days in her home in Beverly Hills, and last Thursday, she made a pit stop in Carmel, Indiana.
