If you've ever been to Amateur Night at The Apollo it can be absolutely brutal.
Here's a good article about Ella's early years (Ella Fitzgerald would have been 100 years old today) how her career started in Harlem at the Apollo Theater when she accepted a dare.
An interesting tidbit is that Ella ran numbers in Harlem and got caught and sent to reformatory school.
If you've ever been to Amateur Night at The Apollo it can be absolutely brutal.
Here's a good article about Ella's early years (Ella Fitzgerald would have been 100 years old today) how her career started in Harlem at the Apollo Theater when she accepted a dare.
An interesting tidbit is that Ella ran numbers in Harlem and got caught and sent to reformatory school.