List of Ella Fitzgerald's awards and accolades

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This page contains a list of awards and accolades won by and awarded to Ella Fitzgerald.

[edit] Awards, citations and honours

• Honorary membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha (1960)
• American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers highest honor (1965)
• Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement Award (1967)
• Honorary chairmanship of the Martin Luther King Foundation (1967)
• Award of Distinction from the National Association of Sickle cell Diseases (1976)
• Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman (1976)

• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award (1979)
• Inductee into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1979)
• Will Rogers award from the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association (1980)
• Lord & Taylor Rose award for outstanding contribution to music (1980)
• Doctor of Human Letters from Talladega College of Alabama (1980)
• Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year from Harvard (1982)
• George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America (1983)
• National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters award (1985)
• National Medal of Art awarded by President Ronald Reagan (1987)
• UCLA Medal for Musical Achievements (1987)
• NAACP Image Award (1988)
• The first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor (1989)
• Order of Arts and Letters, France (1990)
• Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President George Bush
• National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award
• Pied Piper Award
• George and Ira Gershwin Award for Outstanding Achievement
• Honorary doctorates from Yale University, Dartmouth, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Howard University and Princeton

[edit] Grammy Awards

Fitzgerald won fourteen Grammy awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 1967.

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:

• Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1959)

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

• Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1959)

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

• Ella Fitzgerald for But Not for Me (from Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Soloist:

• Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Lightly (1959)

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

• Ella Fitzgerald for Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife (1960)

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

• Ella Fitzgerald for Mack the Knife (from Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife) (1959)

Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:

• Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (1962)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:

• Ella Fitzgerald for Fitzgerald and Pass... Again (1976)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal:

• Ella Fitzgerald for Fine and Mellow (1979)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:

• Ella Fitzgerald for A Perfect Match (1980)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:

• Ella Fitzgerald for Digital III at Montreux (1981)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:

• Ella Fitzgerald for The Best Is Yet to Come (1983)

Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female:

• Ella Fitzgerald for All That Jazz (1990)

Grammy Award for Best Historical Album:

• Ella Fitzgerald for The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks (1995)