Tap dancer gregory hines biography death
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Gregory Hines, 57; Tap Dancer, Actor
Gregory Hines, the innovative and influential tap dance star who became invaluable in the renewal of his art and also enjoyed wide success as a film and television actor, has died. He was 57.
Master of a distinctively earthy, roughhewn tap style, the Tony and Daytime Emmy award-winning performer died Saturday in Los Angeles of cancer.
Although he lent his choreographic talents to the emergence of tap as a concert-dance form, Hines arguably achieved his greatest importance as the bridge between the nightclub-tap tradition of his mentors (most of them known primarily to tap insiders) and the kind of multimedia stardom that no African American tapper had enjoyed since Bill “Bojangles” Robinson in the 1930s.
A monument to Hines’ personal tap style -- which he once defined as trying “to make it as real as possible, as natural as possible” -- the 1989 film “Tap” encompasses the whole range of tap achievement. It casts him as a rebel who explores ta
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Gregory Hines
(1946-2003)
Synopsis
Born in New York City in 1946, Gregory Hines studied dance from an early age and performed with family members at the Apollo Theater. In the 1970s he launched a Broadway career and later starred in movies including The Cotton Club and White Nights.
Profile
Tap dancer, actor, director, musician. Born February 14, 1946 in New York City. Involved in show business at an early age, Hines grew up as a member of Hines, Hines, and Dad alongside his father and older brothers. He studied dance with mästare tap dancer Henry Le Tang and spent much of his early career dancing at the Apollo Theater, gleaning knowledge from such fellow performers as the Nicholas Brothers and Sandman Sims.
In 1973, he left Hines, Hines, and Dad to form a jazz-rock group called Severance. But the smooth-as-silk tap dancer soon returned to New York where he launched a distinguished huvudgata career that won him a Tony award in 1992 for the headlining role in George C. Wo
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Remembering Tap Dancer Gregory Hines (1946-2003)
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STAGE NAME: Gregory Hines
FULL NAME: Gregory Oliver Hines
DATE OF BIRTH: February 14, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH: New York City, New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH: August 9, 2003 (aged 57)
CAUSE OF DEATH: Liver Cancer
PLACE OF DEATH: Los Angeles, California, United States
FATHER: Maurice Robert Hines
MOTHER: Alma Iola Lawless
OLDER BROTHER: Maurice Hines
MARRIED IN 1968: Patricia Panella
MARRIED IN 1981: Pamela Koslow
SON: Zach
DUAGHTER: Daria
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