I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I…

I definitely grew up to Nina Simone and a lot of Ella Fitzgerald. And I loved Amy Winehouse. I loved that sort of soulful…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I didn't really grow up on hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald and the old school jazz divas are more my comfort zone.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the…

— Gladys Knight

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

— Elle Varner

When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house,…

— Dan Hill

My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer…

— Alison Moyet

I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald.

— Lindsay Mendez

I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did…

— Al Jarreau

Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and…

— Yasmine Hamdan

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.

— Estelle

My favorite singer is Ella Fitzgerald.

— Brian J. Smith

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the…

— Julia Glass

Ultimately, I'd say a lot of my vocal influences are jazz-based, people like Ella Fitzgerald, or Fred Astaire.

— Bill Ward

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

— Ethel Waters

As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina…

— Lindsay Mendez