Birthday
1930-08-06
Died
2010-08-14
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Gender
Female
Known For
Acting
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.
