Sarah_Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan Instruments have always been essential to jazz music but one great vocalist one knew how to captivate listeners in such a way that her voice was all that they heard. Sarah Lois Vaughan was born March 27, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey to a family of a non- famous musical background. Vaughan started early with her musical interest by playing piano, sang in the church choir playing the organ by age 12 and attending Arts High School. In 1942, at the age of 18, Sarah and a friend decided to enter an amateur contest in the now famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. Sarah won the prize of ten dollars and a weeks performance at the theater for singing ”Body and Soul” but that is not all she won that day. Billy Eckstine, who was at that time a part of Earl “FATHA” Hines Big Band invited her to be second pianist and a vocalist in this band. By 1944 Hines had decided to form his own band which included Vaughan along with greats like Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker and was known for it’s be-bop style music. During this time she made her vaughan, sarah, jazz, song, one, time, music, piano, songs, recorded, range, new, great, first, chose, been, vocals, scat, mercury, later, famous, both, band, album, year, work, won, voice, two, style, solo, sang, popular, playing, made