- Birthday
- 1930-08-06
- Deathday
- 2010-08-14
- Place of Birth
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Abbey Lincoln
ActingBiography
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.