Abbey Lincoln
Birthday: 1930-08-06
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Movies
For Love of Ivy
A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back ...
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Nothing But a Man
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America....
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Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative ...
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Mo' Better Blues
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness abo...
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Short Walk to Daylight
Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthq...
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The Girl Can't Help It
A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star withi...
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, cele...
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How It Feels to Be Free
Tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey...
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest epi...
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Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln
Abbey is seen a rare 1991 performance at the Promenade Theater in New York. She is at once beautiful...
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