Ella Johnson (June 22, 1919 – February 16, 2004)[1][2] was an American jazz and rhythm and blues singer.
Born Ella Mae Jackson in Darlington, South Carolina, United States,[2] she joined her brother Buddy Johnson in New York as a teenager,[3] where he was leading a popular band at the Savoy Ballroom.
Her singing drew comparisons to Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
Her popular 1945 recording of "Since I Fell for You", composed by her brother, led to its eventual establishment as a jazz standard.
AllMusic noted that her "later solo sides for Mercury are pale imitations of her work with the band.