To all dancers, dance enthusiasts and tap dancers, join us in celebrating the Birthday of Eddie Brown today 8/7/1918.
Brown was born in Omaha, Nebraska, a tap Master and National Treasure, known for creating Scientific Rhythm.
Eddie Brown, a dancer who won fame as a master of rhythm tap improvisation and schooled a generation of dancers, He kept rhythm tap alive. He mesmerized audiences with his improvisation.
When bands played, he would spontaneously start creating his intricate rhythmically musical steps,
Brown was one of fourteen children, he learned tap dance on the street corners, growing up he memorized Bill Bojangles Robinson routines, who saw the young teen-aged dancer in Omaha and offered him a job.