“I was workin’ on a plantation. I picked cotton, I copped cotton, I drove trucks, I plowed the mules, I did all of it.” – Muddy Waters

At just 17 years old, Ella Fitzgerald won first place singing at an amateur night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, which included a weeklong engagement — a huge opportunity that the legendary venue never gave her.

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