Abbey Lincoln

Abbey Lincoln

Birthday: August 6, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Deathday: August 14, 2010
Anna Marie Wooldridge, known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career not only out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards but writing and singing her own materi...al.