21 Facts About Sarah Dash

The seventh of 13 children, Sarah Dash was born in Trenton, New Jersey.

Sarah Dash's father was a pastor at the Trenton Church of Christ, while her mother was a nurse.

In 1961, following the break-up of a rival girl group, Hendryx and Sarah Dash joined Holte and Tucker in "The Ordettes".

Much like The Supremes' Mary Wilson, Sarah Dash was often the "middle" of two of the group's extremes, Nona Hendryx and Patti LaBelle, who often had differed in the group's change of direction before LaBelle eventually agreed to "go along with it".

In 1978, Sarah Dash released her self-titled debut album, which included the top-ten disco hit, "Sinner Man".

However, on her Don Kirshner albums, and especially Ooh La La, Sarah Dash, she was given substandard material to work with, although she wrote "I Feel Good Being Me" for this album.

In 1983, Sarah Dash released two dance singles for Megatone Records in San Francisco, both produced by Patrick Cowley.

Also during this time, Sarah Dash did session work for The O'Jays, Nile Rodgers of Chic, The Marshall Tucker Band, and David Johansen.

Also in 1988, Sarah Dash was asked to add her backing vocals to the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels album, which eventually led to a tour with her old friend Keith Richards.

Sarah Dash recorded the duet "Make No Mistake" with him, and she took the lead vocal on "Time Is on My Side", showcasing her powerful delivery and vocal range, which, Keith has said in his autobiography, is 'the best version of that song he's ever heard'.

In 1992, Sarah Dash added her background vocals on the collaboration between Bo Diddley and Ronnie Wood's Live at the Ritz album.

Sarah Dash took a break to work on her autobiography, Dash of Diva.

Sarah Dash decided with her friend and confidante Pam Johnson on scripted excerpts and wrote a musical with the same title debut at The Cross Roads Theater in New Brunswick.

Sarah Dash sang lead vocals in the group's political song, "System", which featured LaBelle and Hendryx singing side by side to Sarah Dash in autotone, resurrecting songs that did not make the final cut from earlier recordings, including Cole Porter's composition, "Miss Otis Regrets" amongst other songs.

Sarah Dash's voice had taken a while to return after an injury on the New York City Subway and hospitalization, but she recovered her voice by the time of the recording.

Sarah Dash headlined for a month in the San Francisco Cirque du Soleil-influenced Teatro Zinzanni and performed at the 2007 Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender parade.

Sarah Dash was honored by her hometown of Trenton, New Jersey, by being the grand marshal in the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Sarah Dash released a ballad from the album called "I'm Still Here" in late 2011, and a dance music single "Hold On," in May 2012.

Much of Sarah Dash's focus since the early 1990s was on helping to raise money for homeless single women with children in New York.

Sarah Dash collected donations and funds she acquired for these mothers and their children which included clothing, toys, books, after-school activities, excursions to amusement parks, theater in the parks, and food.

Sarah Dash died unexpectedly on September 20,2021, at the age of 76.