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Ella Fitzgerald received hundreds of
awards and honors during her career, and the following
is by no means a comprehensive list. If there is an achievement
you feel needs to be added to this page, please contact
us.
1934
Won Amateur Night competition at the Apollo Theater
1935
Won one week of performing at the Harlem Opera House
1937
Top Female Vocalist, Down
Beat magazine
1938
First No. 1 song, A-Tisket,
A-Tasket
1954
Best Female Vocalist, Metronome
magazine
Best Female Vocalist, Down
Beat magazine (both readers'
poll and critics' poll)
1956
All Star Female, Metronome
magazine
1958
First Grammy awards held; won Best Female Vocal Performance
for The Irving Berlin
Songbook (album) and Best Individual
Jazz Performance for The
Duke Ellington Songbook (album)
1959
Grammy awards, Best Female Vocal Performance for But
Not For Me and Best Individual
Jazz Performance for Ella
Swings Lightly
1960
Honorary membership to Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest and
largest African-American sorority in the United States
Grammy awards, Best Female Vocal Performance (single)
for Mack the Knife
and Best Female Vocal Performance (album) for Ella
in Berlin
1962
Grammy award, Best Female Solo Vocal Performance for
Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson Riddle
1965
Received first ASCAP award in recognition of an artist
1967
Grammy award, Bing Crosby Lifetime Achievement award
Honorary chairmanship of the newly formed Martin Luther
King Foundation
1974
University of Maryland names its new $1.6 million, 1,200-seat
theater and concert hall the Ella Fitzgerald Center for
the Performing Arts
1976
(April 11) Ella Fitzgerald Day in Los Angeles
Honorary Doctorate in Music from Dartmouth College
Award of Distinction from National Association of Sickle
Cell Diseases
Women at Work organization's Bicentennial Woman
Grammy award, Best Jazz Vocal Performance for Fitzgerald
and Pass…Again (album)
1979
Grammy award, Best Jazz Vocal Performance for Fine
and Mellow (album)
Kennedy Center Honors
1980
Will Rogers award from the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce
and Civic Association
Honorary Doctor of Music from Howard University
Lord & Taylor Rose award for her outstanding contribution
to music
Doctor of Human Letters from Talladega College of Alabama
Grammy award, Best Female Jazz Vocal Performance for A
Perfect Match; Ella and Basie
(album)
1981
Grammy award, Best Female Jazz Vocal Performance for Digital
III at Montreux (album)
1982
Hasty Pudding Club Woman of the Year
1983
Peabody Award for Outstanding Contributions to Music in
America
Grammy award, Best Female Jazz Vocal Performance for The
Best Is Yet to Come (album)
1987
A-Tisket, A-Tasket entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame
UCLA Medal for Musical Achievements
National Medal of Arts
1988
NAACP Image award for Lifetime Achievement
1990
Grammy award, Best Female Jazz Vocal Performance for All
That Jazz (album)
Commander of Arts and Letters (France)
Honorary Doctor of Music from Princeton University
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