Black Music and Black Muses
Black Music and Black Muses
Abbey Lincoln in her own voice
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Abbey Lincoln in her own voice

Circa 1996, Speaking on the many phases of her career

This 8 minute excerpt from my personal Abbey Lincoln archives captures her ideal blend of bluntness and tact. We learn more about her time as a painter, and actress, and her disdain for celebrity and anything inauthentic. Her jazz diva peers respected her because she turned down Hollywood to sing a music that ultimately found her blacklisted and margina…

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