Sarah Vaughan

Honestly, Sarah Vaughan might be the most gifted pure voice jazz ever produced — and I say that knowing the competition is fierce. Born in Newark in 1924, she had this extraordinary three-octave range that she'd bend and color and reshape like she was sculpting in real time, and no two performances of the same song ever felt the same. "The Divine One" is a nickname that could easily come across as hyperbole, but the moment you hear her on something like "Misty" or "Autumn in New York," you get it immediately — there's a gravity to her phrasing that feels almost supernatural. She picked up the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989, just a year before she passed, which feels both fitting and achingly late. The world did eventually catch up to how extraordinary she was; it just took longer than it should have.

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Name (English)

Sarah Vaughan

Name (Japanese)

サラ・ヴォーン

Reading

さら・ゔぉーん

Born

March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990

Origin

Newark, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

singer / jazz musician / pianist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rat

High school

East Side High School

Awards & achievements

• 1989 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1981 Primetime Emmy Award
• 2012 New Jersey Hall of Fame
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• NEA Jazz Masters

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Vaughan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229513

Tags

• New Jersey
• singer
• jazz musician
• pianist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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