As Actor
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
7.6
Abbey Lincoln
Acting
Birth Date
August 6, 1930
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date of Death
August 14, 2010
Biography
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.
