Sarah Vaughan
Born: 1924-03-27 in Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1990-04-03
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Quincy Jones | Music Man as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure as Self (archive footage)
2013
- Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas as Self (archive footage)
2012
- …Sings Musicals as Self (archive footage)
- The Music According to Tom Jobim as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was as Self (archive footage)
2007
2006
- Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2 as Self (archive footage)
1987
1981
- Count Basie At Carnegie Hall as Self
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
1971
- The Pearl Bailey Show as Self
1969
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour as Self
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1960
- Murder, Inc. as Singer
1957
- American Bandstand as Self
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self - Singer
- Basin Street Revue
1955
- Rhythm and Blues Revue as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1951
- Disc Jockey as Herself
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self