What Do You Know About Sarah Vaughan?

Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American singer. She was one of the most virtuosic as well as expressive in the history of modern jazz music. Sarah Vaughan was born in the year of 1924 in Newark. In the year of 1942, she won an amateur contest at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Then she joined as a singer in Earl Hines's big band. Later she achieved the post of second pianist in the same band.

In the year of 1944, Sarah Vaughan joined the band of Billy Eckstine. In that place she gained experience as well as exposure to the new style of music, Bebop. Later she recorded music albums with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, the stars of that time. In her career she used to sing both popular music and jazz. Sarah Vaughan became a soloist for the rest of her career. Her vast range as well as wide vibrato and harmonic sensitivity enabled Sarah Vaughan to employ an apparently instrumental approach in the timing of her singing as well as a jazz soloist. The lady of jazz died in the year of 1990.