To All dancers, dance enthusiasts and tap dancers, join us today in celebrating the Birthday of Lloyd Storey today July 24, 1923.
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, to name a few.
When Storey moved back to Detroit, he formed the Detroit Sultans tap ensemble with Fletcher T Bone Hollingsworth and Frank Colvard.
Lloyd also directed the city’s Tap Repertory Ensemble, as well as teaching at the Center for Creative Studies.