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Maya Angelou, or Marguerite Johnson, was married three times in her lifetime, much like the icon Marilyn Monroe. Her first husband, Enistasious ‘Tosh’ Angelos, was of Greek descent. Not much is known about him other than that he was a sailor, a struggling musician, and a former electrician.
In 1951, Angelou married Tosh Angelos, a Greek electrician, former sailor, and aspiring musician, despite the condemnation of interracial relationships at the time and the disapproval of her mother. [29] [30] [note 3] She took modern dance classes during this time and met dancers and choreographers Alvin Ailey and Ruth Beckford.
For a short while, she was married to a Greek sailor, Tosh Angelos, a man who, in Maya’s words, “had read as much as I had read”. She later recalled that, “I’ve always been a patsy for men who can think”. When this marriage ended, Maya kept Angelos’ surname and from then on she was Maya Angelou.
May 28, 2014 · In Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas (1976) she described her brief marriage to “Tosh” (Enistasious Angelos), a jazz-loving white man of Greek descent.
May 28, 2014 · In 1949, she married a white ex-sailor, Tosh Angelos, but they divorced after three years.
Jan 22, 2024 · Maya Angelou was married twice throughout her lifetime, first to a Greek sailor named Tosh Angelos in 1951. The couple eloped to get married, and Angelos abandoned her shortly after they were married. Her second marriage lasted much longer and was to a civil rights leader known as Paul Cabandé Fagan of Lincoln University in 1962.
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Apr 4, 2018 · After marrying her first husband Tosh Angelos in 1951, she began modern dance classes where she formed a dance team with choreographer Alvin Ailey. They called themselves "Al and Rita", and performed modern dance at fraternal black organisations throughout San Francisco but never became successful.
