Sarah Lois Vaughan was born on March 27, 1924, in Newark, New Jersey, starting a life of immense jazz vocal influence.
On March 27, 1924, Sarah Lois Vaughan was born in Newark, New Jersey, to parents Asbury and Ada Vaughan. At a time when jazz was a burgeoning genre shaping modern music, Vaughan’s birth signaled the arrival of an individual who would become one of its leading vocalists. Vaughan was raised in a household rich with musical influences, her father being an amateur guitarist and her mother a church singer, which provided the initial backbone to her illustrious career.