Yes! The Great Sarah Vaughan!
People like to make comparisons between people’s voices. This one sounds like this person, that one sounds like that person. I guess it gives them a mental reference to make it easier to identify things or in this case – voices. I was always told I had a voice like Sarah Vaughan’s. Then when I started really listening to her, I could hear the similarities. And for once, instead of me mimicking a singer’s voice as I had always done in the past with being a cover tunes singer, I could actually hear it.
Vocally, she is a amazingly graceful queen. Riding the ebbs and flows of a song like a butterfly dances in the air.
From Wikipedia:
Sarah Lois Vaughn (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having “one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century”.[1] She had a contralto vocal range. [2]
Nicknamed “Sassy” and “The Divine One,” Sarah Vaughan was a Grammy Award winner.[3] The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989.
Sarah Vaughan’s history is so extensive that I decided not to post of all the wikipedia definition here. It is little known that she was also a skilled pianist. Most people think all she did was sing, but no, she was a musician as well. The was gifted beyond words as a vocalist.
As with all of the other artists that will be featured in this series, please share her music and her talent with a young person. They need to know about this woman and they need to hear her.
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