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Sarah Vaughan
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American jazz and classical singer (1924–1990)
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Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American singer, jazz musician, and pianist. Born in Newark, New Jersey, she began her work period in 1942. Her musical genres included jazz, bebop, cool jazz, and bossa nova. She performed as a contralto and played the piano.
Vaughan was affiliated with Columbia Records and Mercury Records. She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the NEA Jazz Masters award. She died of lung cancer in Hidden Hills on April 3, 1990. Her remains were buried in New Jersey.
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Newark, New Jersey, USA
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…
Known for
- Quincy Jones, Music Man — Self (archive footage)2025
- Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure — Self (archive footage)2018
- Duke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989 — Self2014
- Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas — Self (archive footage)2013
- …Sings Musicals — Self (archive footage)2012
- The Music According to Tom Jobim — Self (archive footage)2012
- Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was — Self (archive footage)2009
- Jazz Icons: Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64 — Self2007
- Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2 — Self (archive footage)2006
- Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas2005
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1924-03-27
- Active to
- 1990-04-03
Discography
Member of
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- Listeners
- 1,192,922
- Total plays
- 12,588,186
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Sarah Lois Vaughan (nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One") (March 27, 1924, Newark, New Jersey – April 3, 1990, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz singer, described as "possessor of one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century". Jazz critic Leonard Feather called her "the most important singer to emerge from the bop era." Ella Fitzgerald called her the world’s "greatest singing talent." When introduced in her two-part interview of 1980 on The Dick Cavett Show <a href="https://
Key facts
- Born
- Sarah Lois Vaughan , ( 1924-03-27 ) March 27, 1924, Newark, New Jersey , U.S.
- Died
- April 3, 1990 (1990-04-03) (aged 66), Hidden Hills, California , U.S.
- Genres
- Jazz bebop vocal pop bossa nova
- Occupation
- Singer
- Instruments
- Vocals, piano
- Years active
- 1942–1990
- Labels
- Columbia Mercury Verve Roulette Pablo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lois
- Family name
- Vaughan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Newark
- Place of death
- Hidden Hills
- Occupation
- pianist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
- Genre
- cool jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Cadet Records
- Image
- Sarah Vaughan 1955.jpg
- Voice type
- contralto
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- Commons category
- Sarah Vaughan
- date of birth
- 1924-03-27
- date of death
- 1990-04-03
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- location of formation
- New Jersey
- birth name
- Sarah Lois Vaughan
- start of work period
- 1942-00-00
- name in native language
- Sarah Vaughan
- end of work period
- 1990-00-00
- nickname
- The Divine One
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Encyclopedic overview
Sarah Lois Vaughan (/vɔːn/, March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Sassy", "The Divine One", and the "Queen of Bebop", she won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nominated for a total of nine Grammy Awards. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century".
Early life
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