Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan was born on Mar 27, 1924 in USA. Sarah Vaughan's big-screen debut came with Disc Jockey directed by Will Jason in 1951. Sarah Vaughan is known for Selma directed by Ava DuVernay, David Oyelowo stars as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King. Sarah Vaughan has got 4 awards and 9 nominations so far. The most recent award Sarah Vaughan achieved is Grammy Awards. The upcoming new movie Sarah Vaughan plays is Sylvie's Love which will be released on Dec 23, 2020.

Sarah Vaughan was born March 27, 1924 in Newark, NJ, and died April 3, 1990, in Los Angeles of lung cancer. Her parents were Asbury, a carpenter, and Ada, a laundress. 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.