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Ella Jenkins
Sign in to saveAmerican folk singer (1924–2024)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1924
- Died
- 2024
- Works
- 29
Top works
- You'll Sing A Song And I'll Sing A Song
- I Know the Colors in the Rainbow
- Who Fed the Chickens
- Impossible
- Negro folk rhythms
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1924
- Active to
- 2024
children's musicfolk
Discography
- Rhythms of Childhood1963
- You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song1966
- Play Your Instruments and Make a Pretty Sound1968
- Growing Up With Ella Jenkins1976
- Adventures In Rhythm1989
- My Street Begins at My House1989
- This-A-Way, That-A-Way1989
- Travellin' With Ella Jenkins1989
- And One and Two1995
- Counting Games and Rhythms for the Little Ones1997
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 35,626
- Total plays
- 241,835
Tags
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Ella Jenkins (born Ella Louise Jenkins in St. Louis, Missouri, on 6 August 1924; died 9 November 2024) was an American singer-songwriter remembered for being "The First Lady of the Children's Folk Song". She was a leading performer of folk and children's music, with her album, Multicultural Children's Songs (1995), long being the most popular Smithsonian Folkways release. She appeared on numerous children's television programs and in 2004, she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. <a hr
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ella
- Family name
- Jenkins
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- St. Louis
- Occupation
- composer
- Educated at
- San Francisco State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- children's music
- Instrument
- harmonica
- Official website
- ellajenkins.com
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1924-08-06
- start of work period
- 1951-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- date of death
- 2024-11-09
- end of work period
- 2017-00-00
- name in native language
- Ella Jenkins
- subject has role
- centenarian
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