Editing Sarah Vaughan (section)

==Early life==
Vaughan was born in [[Newark, New Jersey]], to Asbury "Jake" Vaughan, a carpenter by trade who played guitar and piano, and Ada Vaughan, a laundress who sang in the church choir, migrants from Virginia.<ref name="GatesWest2002">{{cite book |last1=Gates |first1=Henry Louis |author-link1=Henry Louis Gates, Jr|author2=Cornel West|author2-link=Cornel West|title=The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih5ePspKSeAC |date=February 5, 2002 |publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9780684864150 }}</ref><ref name="sassy">{{cite book|last=Gourse|first=Leslie |title=Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kvImwPArpeYC|date=August 5, 2009|publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=978-0-7867-5114-3}}</ref> The Vaughans lived in a house on Brunswick Street in Newark for Vaughan's entire childhood.<ref name="sassy" /> Jake was deeply religious. The family was active in New Mount Zion Baptist Church at 186 Thomas Street. Vaughan began piano lessons at the age of seven, sang in the church choir, and played piano for rehearsals and services. Sarah and her family were all registered [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/sarah_vaughan_851605|title=Sarah Vaughan - I've always been a Democrat; it runs in my...}}</ref>

She developed an early love for popular music. In the 1930s, she frequently saw local and touring bands at the Montgomery Street Skating Rink.<ref name="sassy" /> By her mid-teens, she ventured illegally into Newark's night clubs and performed as a pianist and singer at the Piccadilly Club and at [[Newark Liberty International Airport|Newark Airport]].

Vaughan attended [[East Side High School (Newark, New Jersey)|East Side High School]], then transferred to [[Newark Arts High School]],<ref name="sassy" /> which opened in 1931. As her nocturnal adventures as a performer overtook her academic pursuits, she dropped out of high school during her junior year to concentrate more fully on her music.