Sarah Vaughan
Acting
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.
Sarah Vaughan and her Trio play Jazz from Newport (part II)
The Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
Age 88 (now 66)
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
Age 94 (now 66)
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
as Self (archive footage)
Age 89 (now 66)
Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
as Self (archive footage)
Age 85 (now 66)
Duke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989
as Self
Age 89 (now 66)
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
as Self (archive footage)
Age 82 (now 66) Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
Age 94 (now 66) Duke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989
as Self
Age 89 (now 66) Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
as Self (archive footage)
Age 89 (now 66) The Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
Age 88 (now 66) Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
as Self (archive footage)
Age 85 (now 66)
Jazz Icons: Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64
as Self
Age 83 (now 66) Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
as Self (archive footage)
Age 82 (now 66)
Sarah Vaughan and her Trio play Jazz from Newport (part II)
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self
Age 44 (now 66)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Age 38 (now 66)
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