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She was featured at the first Newport Jazz Festival in the summer of 1954 and starred in subsequent editions of that festival at Newport and in New York City for the remainder of her life. She turned to two friends to help sort out the financial wreckage of the marriage: club owner John "Preacher" Wells a childhood acquaintance and Clyde "Pumpkin" Golden Jr. The Mercury years: 1954–1958
In 1953 Treadwell negotiated a unique contract for Vaughan with Mercury Records.
The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its "highest honor in jazz" the NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. "
Nicknamed "Sailor" (for her salty speech) "Sassy" and "The Divine One" Sarah Vaughan was a Grammy Award winner. Sarah Lois Vaughan (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.
