Sarah Vaughan
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 (30 titles)
9.0MovieQuincy Jones, Music Man
Self (archive footage) · 2025
9.0MovieMichel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Self (archive footage) · 2018
0.5MovieDuke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989
Self · 2014
MovieQueens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
Self (archive footage) · 2013
7.0MovieThe Music According to Tom Jobim
Self (archive footage) · 2012
7.0Movie…Sings Musicals
Self (archive footage) · 2012
8.1MovieSimonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
Self (archive footage) · 2009
MovieJazz Icons: Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64
Self · 2007
MovieJazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
Self (archive footage) · 2006
MovieSarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
2005
MovieSarah Vaughan: The Divine One
1991
6.2ShowJake and the Fatman
1987
10.0MovieCount Basie At Carnegie Hall
Self · 1981
Sarah Vaughan and her Trio play Jazz from Newport (part II)
1974
8.0ShowLe Grand Échiquier
Self · 1972
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self · 1971
6.8ShowThe Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Self · 1969
6.8ShowThe Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 1968
7.5ShowThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1962
6.6ShowThe Merv Griffin Show
Self · 1962
5.8ShowThe Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1961
6.5MovieMurder, Inc.
Singer · 1960
8.2ShowAmerican Bandstand
Self · 1957
6.2ShowThe Steve Allen Show
Self - Singer · 1956
8.5MovieBasin Street Revue
1956
6.8MovieRhythm and Blues Revue
Self · 1955
7.0ShowThe Oscars
Self · 1953
10.0MovieDisc Jockey
Herself · 1951
6.9ShowThe Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · 1950
6.8ShowThe Ed Sullivan Show
Self · 1948