U.S. Jazz Singer Abbey Lincoln Dies at 80

NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) - Abbey Lincoln, the U.S. jazz singer, songwriter, actress and activist, at last Saturday at her Manhattan home in New York city at age 80

Lincoln of Natural Causes at last Saturday morning in the New York neighborhood of Manhattan, local TV quoted her friend and film maker Carol Friendman as Saying, adding That she had Been in poor health conditions on for the past years.

Lincoln started her singing career in 1956 with her first album "Affair ... a Story of a Girl in Love", and Continued her career for six with more than just Decades Recorded 20 albums.

She married jazz Musician Max Roach and Became a civil rights activist During the 1960s, fighting for the freedom and Opportunities of African-Americans.

Lincoln's Role as an actress was well-known on a Golden Globe nomination of her film "For Love of Ivy" co-acted with Sidney Poitier in 1986. Also she appeared in TV monetize bothered with in the 1970s.

In 2003, she won the Jazz Masters Award, the nation's highest jazz Honor issued by the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 2007, Lincoln released her final album "Abbey Sings Abbey," wakes up she named herself on and wakes up she did in her own compositions.