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Vaughan, Sarah (Lois)

(1924–90) jazz vocalist; born in Newark, N.J. She began singing in church, won an Apollo Theatre talent contest in 1942, and was featured with Earl Hines from 1944 to 1945. Influenced by bebop and possessing operatic range, she emerged as an original stylist by the late 1940s and established a solo career as an internationally acclaimed artist thereafter.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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No wonder; it features four songstresses (including just-back-from-Broadway Teresa Stanley) performing the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Etta Jones and more "mamas." 366-1505, wbttsrq.org
Warden's early passion for music led him to see such greats as Frank Sinatra, George Shearing, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald perform live.
Sarah Vaughan - The Mercury Recordings 1954-60 3-CD Set: As Sarah Vaughan put it herself: 'There's a category for me.
Having worked with everyone from Little Richard to Sarah Vaughan, he is the winner of 27 Grammy awards.
Sarah Vaughan, motor director at AXA insurance which published the study, said: "Every year we see a surge of accidents at this time of year as people head back after the August bank holiday, or return home after their summer holidays.
The company, based in Droitwitch, was founded by Frank Kelly and Sarah Vaughan, who worked in the housebuilding sector and saw a gap in the market to make homes flood proof.
Bydd Rhodri Evans, pensaer ifanc o Abersoch yn trafod ei brofiadau a bydd Harri hefyd yn rhannu pryd o fwyd yn Chinatown gyda Sarah Vaughan sy'n teithio'r byd yn rhinwedd ei swydd gyda'r Cyngor Prydeinig.
Performances will include smooth swing, jazz and pop renditions of classics by Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Holiday, the Carpenters, Manhattan Transfer, Anne Murray and Simply Red.
Artists featured in the recordings include Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Max Roach, Gerry Mulligan, and Thelonious Monk, and many more.
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