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 trumpeter Waymon Reed. She received many awards, including an Emmy in 1981 for a tribute to George Gershwin and a Grammy in 1983.
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Full filmography
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- The Mike Douglas Show (1961) as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show (1962) as Self
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) as Self - Guest
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- Jake and the Fatman (1987)
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- Le Grand Échiquier (1972) as Self
- The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) as Self
- The Steve Allen Show (1956) as Self - Singer
- American Bandstand (1957) as Self
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (1969) as Self
- The Pearl Bailey Show (1971) as Self
- Murder, Inc. (1960) as Singer
- Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure (2018) as Self (archive footage)
- Quincy Jones, Music Man (2025) as Self (archive footage)
- …Sings Musicals (2012) as Self (archive footage)
- Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955) as Self
- The Music According to Tom Jobim (2012) as Self (archive footage)
- Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2 (2006) as Self (archive footage)
- Sarah Vaughan and her Trio play Jazz from Newport (part II) (1974)
- Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas (2013) as Self (archive footage)
- Disc Jockey (1951) as Herself
- Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas (2005)