Abbey Lincoln
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: August 6, 1930
Day of Death: August 14, 2010 (80 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
