Abbey Lincoln

Abbey Lincoln died, the singer gifted a wonderful metaphor Laden, songs, and seductive, the sound of the huge personality made her a personal characteristic in jazz, Saturday was 80.

Said her brother David and Drig Lincoln passed away in her apartment upper west side, and the New York Times.

In a career that spanned six decades, were for Lincoln more than 20 albums, acted in several films and television programs, and became a leading voice in the civil rights movement.

Lincoln, who was strongly influenced by the famous jazz singer Billie Holiday, performed until shortly before her death. Singer was born in Chicago, her career in 1956 with the album “der Veer Lincoln – the story of a girl in love.”

Her delivery is emotional and complex songs have already set up quickly and one of the talents of jazz and the most impressive. Biography of Lincoln film includes extensive performance along with Sidney Poitier in the movie 1968 “For Love of Ivy”, a role which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

It was one of four films at a tournament in 1960s, which was held in the same as it has also established one of the votes in early and behind the civil rights movement.

It continued: to appear in many hit TV shows, including “All in the Family” and “Marcus Welby, MD” was born Anna Mary Drig on August 6, 1930, Lincoln was 10 of 12 children. And her manager suggested she take the name of the monastery of Lincoln, a combination of Westminster Abbey, and Abraham Lincoln. Released for Lincoln, who was married to a jazz musician Max Roach for a period of eight years in the 1960s, her latest album “Abbey Sings Monastery,” in 2007.