... 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 ...
... News, Virginia, Ella Fitzgerald never knew her biological father. According to a biographer, she was raised in Yonkers, New York, and fled her abusive stepfather after her mother died, making money by singing and dancing on the sidewalks of Harlem ...
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.
