Via Playfuls:Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald became the thirtieth person to be honored by the U.S. Postal Service's Black Heritage series in an unveiling ceremony Wednesday at Lincoln Center in New York. The stamp features a 1956 portrait of the famed scatress. "She would be very honored, very pleased and a little surprised," Ray Brown Jr., Fitzgerald's son, told the Long Beach Press Telegram. "She didn't go through life expecting all the accolades that she got. She was just happy to do her thing and be the best that she could be." The Press Telegram notes that those accolades included thirteen Grammy awards, the National Medal of Arts, recognition at the 1979 Kennedy Center Honors, and induction into the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, in 2005.
That's a cool looking stamp. Last time I was at the post office they asked me what type of stamp I wanted and was not psyched on my choices.