Abbey Lincoln Is

This is the story of a woman who talks to the sun and dreams about tortoises…
At the age of seventeen, Anna-Maria Woolridge was making a living as a cleaning woman and imitating Billie Holiday. At twenty one she was asked to call herself Gaby Lee and sang in night-clubs and cabarets in Honolulu and San Diego. At twenty six she called herself Abbey Lincoln and acted in Hollywood movies. At thirty she screamed for the dignity of her black American brothers. At forty she went to Africa and became Animata Moseka, gave up music and went back to live over a garage in Los Angeles. Twenty years later she was asked to sing again, calling herself Abbey Lincoln once more.
At the age of sixty eight she is recording her sixteenth album and fills concert halls all over the world. This is the story of one of the last great jazz singers.