Ella Swings Lightly is the singer's fifteenth album, released by Verve Records in 1958. Ella Jane Fitzgerald, also known as Lady Ella and First Lady of Song.

She is considered one of the best and most influential jazz singers in history. Thirteen Grammy winner, gifted with a powerful vocal instrument, boasting a vocal range of more than three octaves. Ella Fitzgerald has been active for 59 years selling around 40 million copies of her seventy or so albums. She exhibits her great capacity for jazz improvisation, in scat, a typical jazz vocal technique of which she is considered above all the greatest exponent of all time: her scat could last over five minutes, while maintaining a perfect melodic imprint. Orphaned at the age of fourteen, she spent her childhood in orphanages and slums of New York. She made her debut at a very young age in 1934 at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. The occasion, one of the famous Amateur Nights, the evenings dedicated to amateur singing competitions, in which he participates and wins. In 1941 he began his solo career, embracing over time the most varied musical genres: swing, bebop, blues, samba, gospel, calypso. In the sixties and seventies he continued to record records, perform all over the world and appear on television programs, guest of colleagues, such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole and Dinah Shore.