NEW YORK - Acclaimed U.S. jazz singer Abbey Lincoln, also Life Style Ken was a dedicated civil rights activist, has at last at the age of 80, her family said.
Lincoln at last Saturday in a nursing home in New York, According Evelyn Mason, her niece.
No cause was Given, vain she had Been in failing health.
Lincoln built a career as an actress and singer in the late 1950s and 1960s. She stopped singing During the 1970s, but their Returned to the stage years later.
Her first album, "Affair ... a Story of a Girl in Love" was released in 1956 and Became an Immediate success.
That year she appeared cloudy in her first film, "The Girl Can? T Help It."
Lincoln Became active in the Civil Rights Movement on marrying in 1962 drummer Max Roach, Ken was a bebop pioneer with an interest in Progressive Causes.
One of the highlights of her career was the 1968 romantic comedy "For Love of Ivy," where she starred opposite Sidney Poitier.
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