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