Maya Angelou with her then husband, Paul Du Feu (via Pinterest) Angelou would later tell all who asked that she and Paul married three times because they loved each other that much.

Literary giant Maya Angelou (c.) remembered songwriter Valerie Simpson (l., with her late husband Nick Ashford) in her will. “We just had Thanksgiving with the family, and Guy didn’t say ...

Riffing off her ex-husband’s last name and her brother’s nicknames for her, she began performing as Maya Angelou. She won a role in a touring production of “Porgy and Bess” and performed ...

Author and activist Maya Angelou has died at the age of 86. Here are eight facts you might not have know about this cultural icon. 1. ... Maya, with a version of her ex-husband’s last name. 2.

Angelou described the relationship between Coretta Scott King and her husband, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., as loving. "He loved her," Angelou said. "Dr.

Maya Angelou was gratified, ... "Angelou" a variation of her husband's name), she toured in "Porgy and Bess" and Jean Genet's "The Blacks" and danced with Alvin Ailey.

Maya Angelou, Poet, ... a version of her first husband's name. Angelou left a troubled childhood and the segregated world of Arkansas behind and began a career as a dancer and singer.

Her mother got up with her at 4:00 a.m. for her daybreak shifts and trailed her in her car “with her pistol on the passenger seat” to keep an eye on her. Maya Angelou during an interview in ...

The late Maya Angelou began her professional career as a singer. Released in 1957, her one and only album, "Miss Calypso," featured a cover photo of the future poetry giant in an alluring red ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (CBS SF) — Author and poet Maya Angelou, who spent her formative years in the San Francisco Bay Area becoming a force on stage, screen and the printed page, has died. She was 86.