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.
30 acting credits
Acting · 30
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Jake and the Fatman
1987
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Oscars
1953
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Le Grand Échiquier
1972
The Steve Allen Show
1956
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
American Bandstand
1957
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971
Murder, Inc.
1960
Quincy Jones, Music Man
2025
The Music According to Tom Jobim
2012
Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
2009
Disc Jockey
1951
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
2013
Rhythm and Blues Revue
1955
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
2018
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
2005
Duke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989
2014
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
2006
…Sings Musicals
2012
Count Basie At Carnegie Hall
1981
Basin Street Revue
1956
Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
1991
Sarah Vaughan and her Trio play Jazz from Newport (part II)
1974
Jazz Icons: Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64
2007