Abbey Lincoln
Anna Marie Wooldridge
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Emerging from a large Midwestern family, she began her professional singing in Los Angeles and Honolulu, initially using stage names such as Gaby Lee before settling on Abbey Lincoln in 1956. Her debut album that year launched a series of recordings for Riverside, and she later contributed vocals to Max Roach’s civil-rights-themed suite We Insist! (1960), cementing her reputation as a protest-song…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
