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Anna Marie Wooldridge

Anna Marie

Gaby Lee

Gaby Woolridge

Abbey Lincoln, Acting

Chicago, Illinois, USA | 1930-08-06 | 2010-08-14

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.