{"id":10123,"date":"2010-01-11T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=10123"},"modified":"2010-01-11T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T19:03:00","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-maya-angelou-miss-calypso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-maya-angelou-miss-calypso\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Maya Angelou, “Miss Calypso”"},"content":{"rendered":"\"maya-angelou-miss-calypso_1340\"\n

Right, the first thing that hits your lips when you think of Maya Angelou is that she’s “Miss Calypso”. But in her early days the prophet poetess was a chanteuse in a slinky red dress back-bending under the limbo bar. This Liberty LP was recorded at The Keyboard club in Hollywood in 1956. Angelou’s Afro-Cuban-with-a-pinch- of -Blues-and-Jazz standards include “Scandal In the Family”, “Mambo In Africa”, “Donkey City” and “Stone Cold Dead In The Market”, the first two of which she wrote.<\/p>\n\"maya-angelou-miss-calypso_1342\"\n\"maya-angelou-miss-calypso_1345\"\n\"maya-angelou-miss-calypso_1344\"\n\"maya-angelou-miss-calypso_1341\"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right, the first thing that hits your lips when you think of Maya Angelou is that she’s “Miss Calypso”. But in her early days the prophet poetess was a chanteuse in a slinky red dress back-bending under the limbo bar. This Liberty LP was recorded at The Keyboard club in Hollywood in 1956. Angelou’s Afro-Cuban-with-a-pinch- … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,413,283,87,193,213,13,249,37,75],"tags":[61,3232,3245,909],"class_list":["post-10123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afro","category-celebrity","category-dance","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-lps","category-music","category-people","category-self-expression","category-songwriting","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-maya-angelou-calypso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}