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Abbey Lincoln

Abbey Lincoln

Acting
1930(USA)-2010
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.

Acts in

  • For Love of Ivy
  • Nothing But a Man
  • Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
  • Mo' Better Blues
  • Short Walk to Daylight
  • The Girl Can't Help It
  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  • How It Feels to Be Free
  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat