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Thursday, March 27, 2025
Sarah Vaughan's Birthday Is Today
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The extraordinary jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990), known as "The Divine One," was born on this day. Vaughan, a native of Newark, New Jersey, where there is a street named for her, would have celebrated her 101st birthday.
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