Category: Tap Dance Masters

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Jeni LeGon

 Jennie May Ligon was born in Chicago, 1916, and became one of the first African American women in tap dance to develop […]

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Jimmy Slyde

Born James Titus Godbolt in Atlanta, 1927, Jimmy Slyde began his musical training as a young child at a Conservatoire in Boston, […]

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Eleanor Powell

Eleanor Torrey Powell was born in Massachusetts, 1912. She took up dance lessons at a young age, as her mother thought it […]

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Bunny Briggs

Bernard “Bunny” Briggs was born in 1922 in the heart of Harlem, NYC: “a swingin’ area, I’ll tell you that.” According to […]

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Fred Astaire

Frederick Austerlitz was born in 1899 in Omaha, Nebraska, and moved to New York in 1905 with his family to receive dance […]

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Gregory Hines

Gregory Oliver Hines was born in New York in 1946. The family lived on Sugar Hill, home of black entertainers, on Harlem’s […]

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The Nicholas Brothers

Fayard and Harold Nicholas grew up in Philadelphia, where their parents ran the house band of the Old Standard Theatre. Fayard, 7 […]

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Gene Kelly

  Born Eugene Curran Kelly in Pittsburgh, 1912, Kelly is known today as a legend of the Hollywood “Golden Era”.  A talented […]

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Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson

Born Luther Robinson in Richmond, Virginia, 1878, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson is widely recognised as the Grandfather of tap dance as we know […]

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Sammy Davis Jr.

  Samuel George Davis Junior was born in Harlem in 1925. His mother – herself a tap dancer on Vaudeville, and her father […]