Ella Fitzgerald - Awards, Citations and Honors

Awards, Citations and Honors

Further information: List of awards received by Ella Fitzgerald

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

Other major awards and honors she received during her career were the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Medal of Honor Award, National Medal of Art, first Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Ella" in her honor, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement, UCLA Spring Sing. Across town at the University of Southern California, she received the coveted USC "Magnum Opus" Award which hangs in the office of the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation.