Before Maya Angelou, there was Miss Calypso

It's now a name long forgotten, but before Maya Angelou chose the pen name inspired by her brother (who called her Maya), she sang, danced and composed lyrics as Miss Calypso. Angelou's days off-Broadway in "Calypso Heatwave" gave her the moniker, which she used on her first and only album in 1957, titled "Miss Calypso."