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.

Known For

Mo' Better Blues

Lillian Gilliam

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Self (archive footage)

The Girl Can't Help It

Herself

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Self (archive footage)

Nothing But a Man

Josie

For Love of Ivy

Ivy Moore

Short Walk to Daylight

Dorella

How It Feels to Be Free

Self (archival footage)