Abbey Lincoln

Known for

Acting

Gender

Female

Born

August 6, 1930

Age at death

80

Died

August 14, 2010

From

Chicago, Illinois, USA

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 material.