Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Lincoln
06.08.1930 - 14.08.2010 (80 years) (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), 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 out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards as well as writing and singing her own material.