Together, they were a memorable couple with star power to be reckoned with.

Tyson first met Davis when the musician was still married to his first wife, dancer Frances Taylor.

When Davis tried to leave, Tyson says she grabbed him by the hair and held on tightly.

Miles Davis with Cicely Tyson in 1983

Because you’re free to walk into a bookstore and you see reams of books about Miles Davis.

And few people who wrote those books know him.

It is the Miles Davis that kept me with him as long as it did.

Miles Davis and Cicely Tyson smiling

Not only was he brilliantly talented, he was brilliantly sensitive.

And that is the Miles Davis that people … don’t know that he was trying to protect."

Cicely Tyson outside Miles Davis' old home