# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sassy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:40:03.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sassy"
name: "Sassy"
slug: "sassy"
description: "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\"."
tagline: "American jazz and classical singer (1924–1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sarah_Vaughan_-_William_P._Gottlieb_-_No._1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1924-03-27"
deathDate: "1990-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.071978994234831
  historical:           23.698292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  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".