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

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Self (archive footage)

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

Self (archive footage)

The Girl Can't Help It

Herself

Nothing But a Man

Josie

Short Walk to Daylight

Dorella

For Love of Ivy

Ivy Moore

How It Feels to Be Free

Self (archival footage)