CNN: Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln dead at 80

Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln dead at 80
By the CNN Wire Staff
August 14, 2010
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/14/abbey.lincoln.dead/index.html

Abbey Lincoln…died of natural causes Saturday morning.Carol Friedman, who has been working on a documentary about the singer for some 20 years, said Lincoln died of natural causes Saturday morning in the New York neighborhood of Manhattan. She declined to provide further details.(CNN) -- Abbey Lincoln, a jazz singer, songwriter, actor and activist, died on Saturday at age 80 in New York City, a friend told CNN.

Lincoln started performing in the 1950s when she released her first album, "Abbey Lincoln's Affair ... A Story of a Girl in Love." Often said to have been heavily influenced by the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday, Lincoln continued to write and perform for six decades...http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/14/abbey.lincoln.dead/index.html

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