Maya Angelou in Calypso Heat Wave (1957)
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Calypso Heat Wave is a 1957 American film starring Merry Anders, Meg Myles and, as herself, Maya Angelou.
It was an attempt by producer Sam Katzman to repeat the success of Rock Around the Clock with calypso music. It was originally known as Juke Box Jamboree
Maya Angelou (/ˈændʒəloʊ/ (About this soundlisten);[1][2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.[3] Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, sex worker, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actress, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she was named the first Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Beginning in the 1990s, she made around 80 appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993) at the first inauguration of Bill Clinton, making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961.
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It's like finding out your mother or favorite quiet aunt, had a very full life. And you just stubble upon the evidence right before your eyes !
@radiantrenee406
4 жыл бұрын
Right!!!!
@dugebuwembo
2 жыл бұрын
Yesssssssss!
@SistahTuMuchMarley
Ай бұрын
Through the decades,people were always surprised when I told them that she was a singer, dancer, and actor long before her senior years. She was even considered a sex symbol when she was Miss Calypso.
I can't believe our cultural ancestor Miss Angelou thought she was not a good singer. Her voice is lovely!
@wolverinelogan9430
4 жыл бұрын
@@taliyas4463 It's hmm!
@wolverinelogan9430
4 жыл бұрын
@@taliyas4463 300,000 BLK babies aborted a year!
@wolverinelogan9430
4 жыл бұрын
@@taliyas4463 Go toy with someone else
@radiantrenee406
4 жыл бұрын
@@wolverinelogan9430 that's a lie...can't trust the Satan, the father of lies...it even said it " discovered " Amerikkka.
@roxiet7016
3 жыл бұрын
@@radiantrenee406 .. Exactly... he’s the troll/agent.. he does this mess.. Report him...
In life, Maya Angelou was a force to be reckoned with.....The teachings she left behind are to be treasured.
@wolverinelogan9430
4 жыл бұрын
Force she was a government agent use to destroy the blk family unit.
@roxiet7016
3 жыл бұрын
@@wolverinelogan9430 ..plz... How do you know??...your the agent/troll!!...
@registame2878
3 жыл бұрын
Facts
@registame2878
3 жыл бұрын
@@wolverinelogan9430 ok lol
@morbidmanuscript9324
4 ай бұрын
@@wolverinelogan9430what makes you say that
She was beautiful
@roxiet7016
3 жыл бұрын
Yupp.. inside of and out!!! Imagine what she had to endure.. Wicked so called entertainment industry!!.. But still we rise 💫🖤💜🤍🤎
@supernatural108
3 жыл бұрын
@@roxiet7016 Absolutely!!
I did not realize the depth of her talent
@markpeter4304
2 жыл бұрын
She was also principal dancer in Porgy (sp) and Bess
@destressfrlyf843
2 жыл бұрын
@@markpeter4304 Thnx
Her voice 😍😍😍 Her voice whether singing or speaking was made for her.
I'm currently in the process of reading her autobiographical series and I had to to come search for footage of her singing and dancing. She was already the "seasoned" matriarch of black culture when I was kid, so I had no idea prior to her aging she was this amazingly talented singer and dancer! I'm so glad there's still footage of it.
@WhereisDreamland
2 ай бұрын
Yes! Grateful to whom ever it was who kept this footage!
Just read about this in her book. Had to come see. She was absolutely beautiful and talented. I love this!
@stevesilk53
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful!
Maya Angelou was very attractive, wasn't she?
@MadAngel209
4 жыл бұрын
Actually, Maya Angelou was married to South African Civil Rights activist, Vusumzi Make.
@wolverinelogan9430
4 жыл бұрын
@@bighurt7107 EXACTLY a race traitor.
@elvispresley1085
4 жыл бұрын
Gone Ballistik your doubting your own opinion
@danniosebastian6341
3 жыл бұрын
Yes in deed.
@paradoxlrainbow
2 жыл бұрын
And she always says in her books she wasn't very attractive? girl !
The Caribbean twang in her voice is infectious!
Absolutely amazing , how did I not know she was a singer , she is an amazing woman
@gwendolynechols7888
2 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal woman!!!
Dr. Maya Angelou was a beautiful young woman and had a very unique tone of voice. RIP Dr. Maya Angelou.
I never knew that she was a performer back then. I knew she done one movie, but I now see she was far more than just a poet. It's good too see such informative clips, movies and other historical things from the past. Alot of ppl would never know of such, if KZread wouldn't have had such a platform to exhibit such shows. It's sad that other ppl come along and throw copywriters and such just to make a profit when a lot will be sealed away in a vault for no one to ever see. I highly enjoy looking for old movies likes this and very much enjoy watching. Keep up the good work. And may that higher power continue too bless you you bless others.
Apparently was a wave around the late 50s...Harry Belafonte...Louis Farrakhan...Maya Angelou.
@sunrah4469
4 жыл бұрын
@Stanley Draper Woooo...did not know that 👍❤
@roxiet7016
3 жыл бұрын
@Stanley Draper .. great point!!! We constantly feed this so called American culture.. Thank u marvelous ancestors and elders... we keep the world going and enjoyable 💛🎶
I'm entranced. She was stunning ❤️
Now she became our grandma. God blessed her with so many years . That is wonderful
Loving watching this just as I’m reading about it in her autobiography. I’m on the third book and it’s just one of the most enthralling stories I’ve ever read. Not just because of the person she is but because of the historical perspective on US from the eye of a black American born in 1928. Amazing read, amazing woman.
@solarwave
3 жыл бұрын
I'm on her third one now (which brought me here). Her young life was quite deep and shocking. So much more than what's generally known about her.
I didn’t know she could sing! This is amazing!
Cj at the age of 75 years old I don't remember hearing of them glad you did this documentary but whatever happen to the sylvers I remember them when I was in elementary school when they started out as the little angels on the grocho Marx this is your life❤❤
Great post !! Just great !!!
Your channel is the best.MAYA WAS BEAUTIFUL
Maya, got that 🔥. Along with Dorothy Dandridge and the with the rest of the actress through that era. 🎼🎙🌹
Love me some Maya Angelou read just finished Mom n Me. It will bring tears
Oh my god she’s beautiful
Phenominal
A GREAT find, thanks!
Beautiful iconic tall black woman🥰
@m.1167
4 жыл бұрын
Wolverine Logan move on with that rhetoric
@wolverinelogan9430
4 жыл бұрын
@@m.1167 Go yo ass to hell.
@m.1167
4 жыл бұрын
Wolverine Logan OH, GROW UP! Like I said, move tf on with that rhetoric! The young lady just commented on these true aspects of Dr. Maya Angelou. Talented, Smart, and beautiful! As for female empowerment what’s the problem with that? Especially BLACK “feminism”? As for single mother and eugenics I’m not sure what your getting at. I can almost bet you that your comments ain’t under a Jack Johnson or Sammy Davis Jr video. Y’all the same Black men who beat down on Black women for no reason at all. Just a shame and disgrace! If you cared about the Black race so much, what are you doing for us? Why you damning a Black woman to hell over the internet? Please grow up hun!
Came here after reading 130/247 pages of one of her autobiography’s “singing, swinging, and dancing” it’s so fun to watch her so this after reading about it such an icon and there’s so much more to learn about and from her
Why is this some of our first time seeing this and finding out more about her than we knew why the caged bird sings she was beautiful inside and out 😊
Maya Angelou had a really hourglass shape when she was young... I would have never thought.
@tom11zz884
4 жыл бұрын
Nothing like the older version of Maya that we all best remembered her as.
@themaggattack
4 жыл бұрын
@@tom11zz884 If you think her younger self was nothing like her older self, then you must have missed her voice, her soul and her expression. Those things were exactly the same about her, throughout her entire life. Anyway, it doesn't take much to see that's the younger version of her beautiful face and body.
The young Maya reminds me of Angela Bassett.
@kelleybright3113
4 жыл бұрын
It's a queen thing
@bighurt7107
4 жыл бұрын
Teyana Taylor too
Wow look at the natural trapezoid and triceps muscles on Maya.
Another good upload 👌 Never knew she sang too. Rip ✝️
🍃👩🏻Thank you ReelBlack One, I didn't know who Maya Angelou was after seeing her image on the back if a quarter.. Got curious.. Searched her, and HER story, not THEIRS.. A couple of beautiful inspiring Quotes.. And now a gorgeous singing actress.. They didn't teach me about her in school.. In ALL of my schooling years. Now this is what I call, REEL schooling! 👩🏻📚🍃
Reading Singin' and Swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas then seeing this is... Speechless ❤️
Maya was lookin good back then. Beauty looked so natural back then.
Maya was Pearl Bailey's under study. Pearl was a mean girl back in the day and called Maya ugly. Mind you the share similar features, hence under study gig.
@germyw
4 жыл бұрын
@Jim Stark If you think thAt only happens with black people you are lost. Ridiculous the shit y'all put on us. Smh
@radiantrenee406
4 жыл бұрын
I just discovered the life of Pearl Bailey. Thanks for the lead. Knowledge is Power
@radiantrenee406
4 жыл бұрын
They look like sisters...thsts that deep inner self hate Pearl had towards Maya. Lol
She had a strong but very feminine physique. Plus she has a strong baritone voice.
@scottyrob82
4 жыл бұрын
@Mz Indigo Nikki Love You're correct. I should've said contralto.
@germyw
4 жыл бұрын
Contralto.
@scottyrob82
4 жыл бұрын
@@germyw I already corrected myself.
LOVE... THIS!!! 🙌🏾❤🙏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I think Maya Angelou inspired so many Ethiopian artists in Ethiopia back in that time, my mom told me it was very popular when they were growing up.
I had no idea she sang, beautiful!
She was absolutely gorgeous and statuesque, had no idea she was that tall, her voice was good too.
Oh wow Calypso birthed in Trinidad 🇹🇹 has traveled across the world. Maya singing it is a great example of that. Long live calypso music!
Outstanding!
GET IT Maya! 👏👏👏
Amazing 👏
She could sing and perform to; what a woman
Beautiful
In that second clip, you hear she ALWAYS sounded like "Maya Angelou". Lol.
one of the most important humans for sure! thank you, Ms. Angelou
Such an extraordinary human being. 👑
Such a queen👑
Such a rich and sustaining voice!
Gorgeous
Love it!
Great ! Thank you.
Today we read about her and I am came to watch her song❤ She is just amazing yr
This fire 🔥
Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹....Pearl Primus home land!!
@michaeljoseph741
4 жыл бұрын
'Miss Calypso herself'. Americans always want to appropriate everyone else's culture.
Why are some people in the comments hating on her? She was gorgeous in this performance and her expressions are authentic. I don't understand the disapproval.
I never Maya was a singer too. Just knew her as a poet.
Oh Wow, this is great.
Uma grande mulher, em todos os sentidos !
My mind is blown! I had no idea she sang. Very cool.
Cj at the age of 75 years old I don't remember hearing of them glad you did this documentary but whatever happen to the sylvers I remember them when I was in elementary school when they started out as the little angels on the grocho Marx this is your life
She would have done very well today. Beautiful face and body and an unusual voice.
I was today years old when I found out Maya Angelou was a singer 😮
wow
Damn! I didn't know Maya Angelou used to be so hot! 🍺😉👍
I had no idea she was so beautiful
2:54 St8 BARRS 🔥🔥💯
What a bop
Thanks Anne Marie. Met her in London in 1987. She was “all that and then some!”
Wow, I had never seen a young Maya until now. Thanks very much for all your channel does. What can we do to assist against the KZread villains that are giving you'll grief?
At least she was honest about having turned to running around in bars,the fast life, selling All Woman BODY to survive 👍👏🙌😵 So it just goes to so show you that PEOPLE CAN AND WILL WITH DETERMINATION AND POSITIVITY CHANGE THEIR LIVES FOR THE BETTER NOT ONLY FIR THEM BUT FOR ALL OTHERS THAT COME IN CONTACT WITH IN PERSON OR OTHERWISE 🤯💯 RIP MAYA THANKS FOR MAKING NOT ONLY MY LIFE BETTER BUT THE WORLD JUST A LITTLE BETTER PLACE TO LIVE 🤗
Maya sure was an extremely good looking lady.
Thank you for posting Black EXCELLENCE
She was tall, she was beautiful and a great singer. Question: doesn't she sound a little like Della Reese?
It’s just something about those Aries!
She reminds me of Gabriel Union here. Beautiful lady and super talented.
Miss Maya Angelou is actually from my City St Louis
I knew she was a singer. But never saw a video of her singing.
Gabrielle Union better jump on. Bio-pic about Ms Maya ( RIP)... Maya is Just Amazing.... Breathtaking, Stunning, and Just The Most Gorgeous Woman Ever Created...
How can I watch the full movie?
The original Calypso was very political this is the toned down version.
@sunrah4469
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting. I did not know that there was ever a political aspect to the music.
@stacistewart815
4 жыл бұрын
Why is this suppose to be Trinidad, but most of the people there look Spanish??
@roxiet7016
3 жыл бұрын
@@stacistewart815 .. righttt... I was distressed about that too...
Beautiful Queen. Eloquent. Speaking. Pancakes. 🤣🤧😷
Wow so proud 2 b a brown girl we are the truth..talented, beauty, grace..and yea u caint duplicate it
2:50
Not just Angela Bassett, favors Teyana Taylor too
Wow I yhauhjt she was from the Caribbean.
Maya back in the day was cute.
Wow.....I thought I was looking at Angela Bassett for a minute lol
Maya invented doing the race 🚓🚨
When it comes to Calypso, I prefer Roaring Lion myself Dancing?....Katherine Dunham
Macy's 143ee
1st
Real beautiful black women oh yes!!!
E essas de hoje em dia se acham. Pobres almas. She Maia is big single.
She looks like Gabrielle Union. ❤️
Even sexy she's talking real s