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Why Ella? :: Ella Studio (263 words) |
 | Ella was named in honour of a great writer, Ella Maillart and one of the greatest female jazz singers the world has ever known: Ella Fitzgerald. |
 | Ella Maillart was one of the most amazing female travellers in the world. |
 | In the course of her career she won every form of musical recognition of her day and recorded more than 120 albums, excluding compilations; and despite her musical stature we could have heard her soulful voice modestly pouring forth on stage at age 70 just as we could have when she was 16. |
| stenio solinas (920 words) |
 | Ella considers it a means, not an end: “After all, the earth is there, the earth belongs to me, I want to see it, I want to travel over deserts and mountains. |
 | Maillart possesses the enchanted eye of the born traveller and the machine is the mechanical extension of an aesthetic and moral sensitivity that is part of her being. |
 | Ella is physical, Annemarie is diaphanous, Ella is healthy, Annemarie is sick, Ella is calm, Annemarie is troubled, Ella is primordial, Annemarie is artificial. |