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Abbey Lincoln
August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010
American singer (1930–2010)
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Abbey Lincoln, actually Anna Marie Gaby Wooldridge, was an American jazz singer and actress. From a bar singer, she developed with her warm alto voice into a “politically awake, socially conscious and unpretentious” song interpreter who continued “the honest tradition of Billie Holiday in an original way”.
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- Birthday · August 6
- Anniversary · August 14
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