Lloyd Storey – HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Tap Legacy™ Daily Post – To All dancers, dance enthusiasts and tap dancers, join us today in celebrating the Birthday July 24, 1923 of Lloyd Storey, a Tap Master and National Treasure. Lloyd grew up in New York after the family moved from Detroit, Michigan. At the young age of 14 years old, he began dancing at New York’s famed Apollo Theater, eventually touring with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.
After the end of WWII where he served in the Navy, he returned to the stage performing with all the greats of the time, the likes of Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Redd Foxx, Peg Leg Bates, Count Basie.
When Storey moved to Detroit, he formed the “Detroit Sultans” tap ensemble with Fletcher “T Bone” Hollingsworth and Frank Colvard, he also directed the city’s Tap Repertory Ensemble, as well as teaching at the Center for Creative Studies.