Sarah Vaughan, born March 27, 1924, was very talented and everyone knew it. Word spread so even those who never went to church knew how gifted she was. Word reached Little Jimmy Scott of Newark, himself a jazz singer. He remembered that the gossip was that Sarah Vaughan might become another Marian Anderson. Since Sarah had grown up listening to her mother sing in the church choir, it seemed natural for her to follow in her mother's footsteps and become involved in the musical life of the church. By October 1942, eighteen-year-old Sarah had already been playing the organ for choir practice on Saturday mornings and for Sunday services for years. In addition to weekend services, he also played for the children of the congregation during the week. Sarah's parents found themselves in Newark, New Jersey, after emigrating from Virginia during World War I. They also discovered that the church was growing because of the waves of people migrating from the South. It all started with trumpeter Jabbo Smith, who remembers encouraging young Sarah to try to win an amateur night competition at the Apollo. For Sarah, trying to win the competition was natural. He knew many professional musicians who tried to win prizes there and won. Before deciding that she would perform on the Apollo stage herself, she encouraged Doris Robinson to compete and Sarah would accompany her on the piano. As a result, Doris won second place and split the money with Vaughan fifty-fifty. On an October night in 1942, Sarah "dared" to go to the Apollo as long as her friends were in the audience to cheer her on. Sarah Vaughan arrived so late on the night she was supposed to perform that Ralf Cooper, Sr., master of ceremonies, did not come... middle of paper... and home!" he told her. daughter. At the time her daughter was working as an actress under the name Paris Vaughan and appeared in a television movie on the night of April 4, 1990, which was the forty-sixth anniversary of the day she officially joined Earl Hines' band "She died while watching the movie." Buried in Glendale Cemetery in Bloomfield, New Jersey, her death came as a shock to many. In 1991 Carmen McRae released an album called A Tribute to Sarah which celebrated her old friend Sarah's modest, shy and vulnerable side. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Friedwald, Will. Jazz Singing: Macmillan, 1990. Gourse, Leslie: The Life of Sarah Vaughan New York: Macmillan, 1993. Nagel, Carol DeKane York: UXL, 1995.Schuller, Gunther The Swing Era: The Development of jazz, 1930-1945, 1989.