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Sarah Vaughan
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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 Ger…
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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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Sarah Vaughan's Filmography
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Quincy Jones, Music Man
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989
as Self
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
as Self (archive footage)
The Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
…Sings Musicals
as Self (archive footage)
Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
as Self (archive footage)
Jazz Icons: Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64
as Self
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
as Self (archive footage)
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
No Poster
Motown Returns to the Apollo
Count Basie At Carnegie Hall
as Self
No Poster
Sarah Vaughan and her Trio play Jazz from Newport (part II)
Murder, Inc.
as Singer
Basin Street Revue
Rhythm and Blues Revue
as Self
Disc Jockey
as Herself