![]() It is not that I grew up without any music interests at all. ![]() Google's doodle to commemorate her 96th birthday It seems very strange now, and the Indian past feels like a previous life sometimes for the stark contrast that is against my contemporary American life. In all my growing up years in India, I never knew anything about Ella Fitzgerald. Shamshad Begum in India, and Ella Fitzgerald in America. In the country that I now call home, today would have been the 96th birthday of a music legend. In the old country, a music legend died yesterday-she was 94. ![]() As I often note here, I feel incredibly lucky to have been born and raised in a wonderful country with lots of stories of its own, and to then to make myself at home in another wonderful country on the other side of the planet.
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