Name
Sarah Vaughan
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1924-03-27
Deathday
1990-04-03 (66 years old)
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
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 manager, trumpeter George Treadwell. Her later husbands included pro football player Clyde Atkins and trumpeter Waymon Reed. She received many awards, including an Emmy in 1981 for a tribute to George Gershwin and a Grammy in 1983.
Known For
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- 1960 Murder, Inc. as Singer
- 2005 Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
- 1991 Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
- 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
- 2012 …Sings Musicals as Self (archive footage)
- 1951 Disc Jockey as Herself
- 1981 Count Basie At Carnegie Hall as Self
- 2012 The 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)
- 2025 Quincy Jones, Music Man as Self (archive footage)
- 1985 Motown Returns to the Apollo
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1957 American Bandstand ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1987 Jake and the Fatman ( 1 episode )
- 1969 The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1956 The Steve Allen Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Singer
- 1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 1971 The Pearl Bailey Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
