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The following are some of Ella's more
notable career achievements. For specific dates and more
complete listing, please see her Awards section.
- 13 Grammy awards
- A-Tisket, A-Tasket
entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame
- Kennedy Center for Performing
Arts' Medal of Honor Award
- National Academy of Recording
Arts and Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award
- Pied Piper Award
- American Society of Composers
- Women at Work organization's
Bicentennial Woman
- Authors and Publishers' highest
honor
- George And Ira Gershwin Award
for Outstanding Achievement
- National Medal of Art
- Honorary chairmanship of the
Martin Luther King Foundation
- Received first ASCAP award in
recognition of an artist
- Honorary doctorate degrees from
Dartmouth, Talladega, Howard and Yale Universities
- Peabody Award for Outstanding
Contributions in Music
- The first Society of Singers
Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella"
in her honor
- NAACP Award for lifetime achievement
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