Sally Stevens is an American singer, actress, and vocal contractor, who for Disney, played a vocal conductor/singer in Spy Hard. She also provided the singing voice of the Glowworm in James and the Giant Peach and additional voices in The Little Mermaid. Stevens also was the lead vocalist on "Tomorrow's Child", the theme song for Spaceship Earth at Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center from 1986 until 1994.
Stevens was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, and attended UCLA as a music major. She worked as a production singer in Las Vegas with bookings in 1961 and 1962, then began to work freelance in recording and commercials in Los Angeles. She sang on the Danny Kaye Variety Show, The Carol Burnett Show, and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
Her first work in film scoring was in 1962, How the West was Won, then continuing with Doctor Zhivago, The Sound of Music, The Abyss, Contact, Amistad, Behind Enemy Lines, Forrest Gump, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Poltergeist, The Blues Brothers, Grease, Charlotte's Web, Slap Shot, Smokey and the Bandit, The Muppet Movie, Caddyshack, Apocalypse Now, Home Alone, Cats Don't Dance, Horton Hears a Who, Jumanji, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, National Lampoon's Vacation, The Swan Princess, Banjo the Woodpile Cat, The Pebble and the Penguin, and 9 to 5. She also had solo performances in The Secret of NIMH, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Stone Boy, and an episode of the The Golden Girls, where she sang "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime". She has also sung on hundreds of The Simpsons episodes as well as the main title.
Stevens also works as a vocal contractor which made her responsible for handling the paperwork required and choosing singers based on the musical style and skills required by the project. She did this for films, like The Abyss, Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Bridge of Spies, Deadpool 2, Jurassic World, I, Robot, The Polar Express, Coneheads, I Am Legend, Strange Magic, Where the Wild Things Are, Rango, Watchmen, Doubt, Elf, The Addams Family, Casper, Norbit, War of the Worlds, 50 first Dates, Peter Pan (2003), Why Do You Fools Fall in Love?, and Joyful Noise as well as the show Family Guy.
Stevens is also the director of the Hollywood Film Chorale, a writer of short fiction and poetry, a fine art photographer, and has served on the local and national boards of AFTRA for over 40 years, on the board of Screen Actors Guild for 18 years, was a trustee of NARAS, and is currently a national trustee of the AFTRA Health & Retirement Funds.
