IN MEMORIAM 1924 – 1990
Sarah Vaughan
Artist in the Deadikace database.
Bebop Cool Jazz Jazz
Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed “Sassy”, “The Divine One”, and the “Queen of Bebop”, she won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nominated for a total of nine Grammy Awards. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had “one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century”.
Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.
1924
Born March 27, 1924 in United States
BIRTH
1990
Died at 66
IN MEMORIAM