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Earl “Snakehips” Tucker

In the smoky brilliance of Harlem’s Cotton Club during the late 1920s and early 1930s, a young man from Maryland took the stage and moved his body in…

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Sammy Davis Jr.

is often called the greatest entertainer who ever lived, and the claim is difficult to refute. He could sing at a level that rivaled Sinatra. He could act…

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Timothy “Poppin’ Pete” Solomon

If Boogaloo Sam created popping, Popin’ Pete carried it to the world. Timothy Solomon, born in 1961 and raised in Fresno, California alongside his older brother Sam, became…

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William Henry Lane

Before tap dance had a name, before metal taps were attached to shoes, before vaudeville existed, there was William Henry Lane. Born around 1825 — a free Black man in…

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John W. Bubbles

If Bill Robinson made tap dance visible to America, John W. Bubbles made it dangerous. Born John William Sublett in Louisville, Kentucky in 1902, Bubbles took a form…

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Gregory Hines

By the mid-1970s, tap dance was dying. The vaudeville circuit that had sustained it was long gone. The great tappers of the mid-century — Robinson, Bubbles, the Nicholas Brothers, Davis — were…

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Sam “Boogaloo Sam” Solomon

Somewhere in Fresno, California in the mid-1970s, a teenager named Sam Solomon watched James Brown move on television, went outside, and began trying to make his own body…

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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson

Bill Robinson was the most famous tap dancer in the world for nearly three decades. Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1878 — just thirteen years after the end of the…

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Health & Empowerment Series

Dance Mogul Magazine Health & Empowerment SeriesThree complete series — 41 articles that can change the way you move, eat, and walk into your future. Knowledge is the…

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