Synopsis

DOCUMENTARY The portrait of a fascinating woman whose music was the soundtrack of a turbulent century. Her career was a unique journey which began in 1934 at a talent competition in Harlem. Over six decades, Ella Fitzgerald embodied jazz music like no-one else. She was America‘s »First Lady of Song«, whose life and work reflected the moods and upheavals of her time. Archive recordings and interviews with colleagues like Smokey Robinson, Jamie Cullum, Tony Bennett and Norma Miller reveal a person who lived and breathed her music and electrifies the screen with her exuberant joie de vivre.

Bio

LESLIE WOODHEAD has made numerous prize-winning documentaries for broadcasters like HBO and the BBC, including 9/11: The Day that Changed the World (2011) and The Hunt for Bin Laden (2012). He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992.

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