Name: Abbey Lincoln
Birthday: 06 August 1930
Deathday: 14 August 2010
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
