Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
3/27/1924
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Sarah Vaughan
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 tr...
Known For
Disc Jockey
as Herself
Murder, Inc.
as Singer
…Sings Musicals
as Self (archive footage)
Quincy Jones | Music Man
as Self (archive footage)
Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
as Self (archive footage)
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
as Self (archive footage)
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
as Self (archive footage)
Rhythm and Blues Revue
as Self
Count Basie At Carnegie Hall
as Self
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
The Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
Unknown Role
Basin Street Revue
Unknown Role
Duke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989
as Self
Jazz Icons: Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64
as Self
Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
Unknown Role