Sarah Vaughan
Birthday
1924/03/27
Day of death
1990/04/03 (66 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Also know as
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Biography
She began studying music when she was seven, taking eight years of piano lessons and two years of organ. As a child she sang in the choir at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Newark and played piano and organ in high school productions at Arts High School. She entered an amateur contest at the Apollo Theater in New York's Harlem area, singing "Body and Soul", and won the $10 prize and a week's engagement at the Apollo. From 1944 to 1945, she sang with Billy Eckstine and in 1947 she married her mana...Read more
Acting
(1960) Murder, Inc.
as Singer
(2005) Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
as ---
(1991) Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
as ---
(2014) Duke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989
as Self
(2006) Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
as Self (archive footage)
(1956) Basin Street Revue
as ---
(2012) …Sings Musicals
as Self (archive footage)
(1951) Disc Jockey
as Herself
(1981) Count Basie At Carnegie Hall
as Self
(2012) Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
(1955) Rhythm and Blues Revue
as Self
(2013) Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
as Self (archive footage)
(2018) Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
(2009) Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
as Self (archive footage)
(2007) Jazz Icons: Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64
as Self
(1974) Sarah Vaughan and her Trio play Jazz from Newport (part II)
as ---
(1950) The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
(1957) American Bandstand
as Self
(1987) Jake and the Fatman
as ---
(1969) The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
(1956) The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Singer
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1971) The Pearl Bailey Show
as Self
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest