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EARLY YEARS

Sarah was born in Long Branch, N.J., and her early years were spent in Belmar, N.J. Unlike your average grammar school student, Sarah acquired a love for the "Big Band

Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...

" sound very early in life and decided that it would be her calling. Moving to Jupiter, Florida

Jupiter, Florida

Jupiter is a town located in Palm Beach County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 39,328. The estimate population for 2009 is 50,606. As of 2006, the population had grown to 50,028, according to the University of Florida, Bureau of Economic and Business Research....

after graduating from Belmar Elementary School, she continued her education focused on both music and acting. Sarah was in the first graduating class of the Palm Beach County School of the Arts at the Kravis Center, and Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its...

was the keynote speaker to mark the prestigious occasion. She subsequently graduated from The New World School of the Arts

New World School of the Arts

New World School of the Arts is a public magnet high school and college in Downtown Miami, Florida with dual-enrollment programs in visual arts, dance, theatre, musical theatre, instrumental music, and vocal music. Both the college and the high school are accredited by the Southern Association of...

in Miami, and has also received a “Bachelor of Fine Arts” diploma from the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

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Borrowing the idea of catchy names given to other female vocalists such as “The Liltin” Miss Martha Tilton, and “The Singing Rage” Miss Patti Page, Sarah earned a reputation as "The Regal Miss Sarah Spiegel", or simply "The Regal Miz". Her 1930s and '40s songs can be heard daily on the popular radio station, WJTW 100.3 FM in Palm Beach County, right alongside Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

, Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...

and Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...

.

Sarah's arrival in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

from South Florida has been met with nonstop work. Her credentials include guest star roles on national television shows such as Samantha Who?

Samantha Who?

Samantha Who? is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from October 15, 2007 to July 23, 2009. The series was created by Cecelia Ahern and Don Todd, who also served as producers...

, King of Queens, Boston Public

Boston Public

Boston Public is an American drama television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on Fox. It centered on Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school district in which it takes place...

, Navy NCIS, Living With Fran

Living With Fran

Living With Fran is an American sitcom that debuted on The WB network in April 2005 that starred Fran Drescher. The show last aired on March 2006.-Premise:Drescher plays Fran Reeves, an interior designer and divorced mother of two...

, and Providence

Providence (TV series)

Providence is an American drama series that aired on NBC starring Melina Kanakaredes. The show ran for five seasons from January 8, 1999 until December 20, 2002.-Synopsis:The show revolves around Dr...

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Sarah has an equally impressive stage and theatrical resume. With her melodic voice and acting abilities, Sarah has starred in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

, Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator...

, The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than its natural parents....

and The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...

.

General Motors

General Motors

General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...

recruited Sarah to be one of the national spokespersons for their 100th anniversary celebration. She interviewed and shared the stage with many luminaries from the business and entertainment field throughout 2008.

Hollywood Walk of Fame

On July 25, 2010 Louis Prima Jr

Louis Prima Jr

-Origins:Louis Prima Jr. is a Las Vegas-based entertainer best known for carrying on the legacy of his father Louis Prima, the original "King of Swing." Born on Father's Day in 1965, he is the youngest child of Louis Prima and Gia Maione Prima, and is Louis Prima’s only son...

and the Witnesses featuring Sarah Spiegel were in Hollywood for an historic occasion: Louis Prima's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...

on 1617 Vine Street. Louis Jr. and his sister Lena were on hand to accept the star on their father's behalf, followed by a tribute show to their father. In the year Louis Sr. would have become a centenarian, his son Louis Jr. showed the world that the time is indeed right for a resurgence in big band and swing...and Louis Jr. the one to make the world stand ready to "Jump, Jive an' Wail."

MUSICOLOGY

Sarah has performed the Star Spangled Banner in front of 70,000 NFL fans twice (St. Louis Rams

St. Louis Rams

The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...

vs. Buffalo Bills

Buffalo Bills

The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

and St. Louis Rams vs. Arizona Cardinals

Arizona Cardinals

The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

). This footage was captured by the CBS cameras and can be viewed here

She also devotes much of her time to writing original lyrics and short stories and has recently written a one woman show which will debut on a Los Angeles stage, featuring established and original songs. The show, "Through the Perilous Fight (We Never Stopped Singing)" is a tribute to the beautiful and heroic music of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

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Sarah is recording her first full length, contemporary/pop CD with Eddie Hedges from Blessid Union of Souls

Blessid Union of Souls

Blessid Union of Souls is an American rock band from Morrow, Ohio that was formed in 1990 by friends Jeff Pence and Eliot Sloan....

producing. Her latest music video taken from these sessions, "I Will Be Strong" has been seen globally and is viewable here

Jesse Saunders' BrokenRecords label has officially released Sarah's version of “I DREAMED A DREAM” (from Les Miserables) and is available for purchase through

iTunes

Rhapsody

Beatport.com

Traxsource.com
Sarah is currently on tour singing with Louis Prima Jr. and the Witnesses featuring Sarah Spiegel.

Louis Prima Jr. carries on the legacy and standards his father made famous... "Just a Gigolo

Just a Gigolo (song)

"Just a Gigolo" is a popular song, adapted by Irving Caesar in 1929 from the Austrian song "Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo", written in 1928 by Leonello Casucci and Julius Brammer .-History:...

," "Jump Jive an' Wail," "That Old Black Magic," and "Sing Sing Sing,” to name a few.

Sarah is also working in the studio with Louis Prima Jr

Louis Prima Jr

. on the band’s first album, which will contain covers of Louis Prima

Louis Prima

Louis Prima was a Sicilian American singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter. Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his seven-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, then successively leading a swing combo in the 1930s, a big band in the 1940s, a Vegas lounge act in the...

’s hit songs.

Live performances

Articles

Louis Prima Jr. and the Witnesses Perform at Hard Rock Cafe

Prima

Louis Prima Jr. Keeps Dad's Music Alive

The Signal

Louis Prima Jr. Brings His Father's Style and His Own to the Boardwalk

Prima Gets His Star

Prima Jr. Gets a Witness

Louis Prima to be Honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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