Sarah Vaughan - Lullaby of Birdland

Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer described by music critic Scott Yanow as having one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century. Nicknamed Sassy and The Divine One Sarah Vaughan was a Grammy Award winner. The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its highest honor in jazz the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Recordings of Sarah Vaughan were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have qualitative or historical significance.