 Jeffrey Daniel (right) with fellow Shalamar band members, Howard Hewett and Jody Watley Jeffrey Daniel (often misspelt as Jeffrey Daniels) (born Los Angeles, California on August 24, 1955) is an American dancer and singer, most notable for being a member of the soul vocal group Shalamar. This Manual of Style has the simple purpose of making things easy to read by following a consistent format — it is a style guide. ...
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Hewett, Watley, and Daniel Shalamar was an American musical group of the 1970s and 1980s that was originally a disco-driven vehicle created by Soul Train booking agent Dick Griffey. ...
Daniel was the first person to moonwalk on television, during a performance of Shalamar's "A Night to Remember" on, the British music show, Top of the Pops. The song was a hit in 1982, almost a year before Michael Jackson moonwalked for the first time on the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever television broadcast. Jackson was a big fan in the 1970's of Soul Train. He soon met, learned from, and later hired dancer/choreographers from the Soul Train TV show. One of those young dancers was 17 year old Jeffrey Daniel. The moonwalk or backslide is a dance move that gained widespread popularity after being performed by Michael Jackson on the 1983 television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and has since become his signature move. ...
Top of the Pops was a long-running British music chart television programme, and indeed the longest-running music show in the world, shown each week on BBC and now licensed for national versions around the world. ...
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Daniel became a renowned and respected pioneer of the West coast Street dance movement. He and his peers took a style of dance from the streets and clubs to the mainstream music and media world. The world saw a fusion of Jazz, Popping, Locking, Robotics, Wack, House and Hip Hop merged into effortless sequences. Street dance is an umbrella term used to describe dance styles that evolved outside of dance studios at more everyday spaces such as streets, school yards and nightclubs. ...
During his career he has taught, worked and ranked alongside other friends and dance pioneers such as Shabba Doo, Casper Geron, Poppin Pete and The Electric Boogaloos. The Electric Boogaloos is a funk dance and street dance group focusing on a style called the electric boogaloo, a variant of popping. ...
Daniel gives great credit to a man that inspired him, the original dance 'Locker' Don Campbell, one of the earliest Soul Train dancers. He also gives thanks to Cleveland Moses Jr. his partner in crime on Soul Train and to Tyrone Proctor who was the premier 'Wack' dancer who taught Jeffrey the style of dance known as 'Wacking'. It was on Soul Train whilst doing a routine dressed in black that Daniel and Geron 'Casper' Candidate and Derek 'Cooly' Jackson first performed the moonwalk on US television. Michael Jackson later worked with both Jeffrey and Casper and they taught him the moonwalk.[citation needed] Don Campbell is an African American man who invented the dance called Locking. In the late 60s Don Campbell made the dance popular in L.A.. He a dance group in the early 70s and called them The Lockers. ...
Daniel and his Soul Train dance partner Jody Watley, (whom he had known as a since she was twelve years old from church) along with Howard Hewett, became the world famous soul funk group - Shalamar. They had a multitude of hits such as "A Night to Remember", "I Can Make You Feel Good", "There It Is", "Friends", and others. Jody Watley (born Chicago, Illinois on January 30, 1959) is an American pop singer/songwriter, producer and label owner. ...
Howard Hewett (Born: October 1st, 1955 in Akron, Ohio) is the former lead vocalist of the R&B group, Shalamar, from 1979 to 1985. ...
In 1982, Daniel performed a body popping and locking routine which saw the debut of the moonwalk in the United Kingdom on Top of The Pops. This episode alone gained more viewers than the UK's most watched soap opera Coronation Street [citation needed].' In the 1980's, Daniel had become something of a style icon with his everchanging hair styles and unique dress sense. He was often seen on the London club scene with the likes of Bananarama, Wham and Culture Club. Locking (originally Campbellocking) is a comical street dance style. ...
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Bananarama are an English girl group who found worldwide fame with their melodic pop and new wave songs. ...
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After seven years, millions of albums sales, and tours around the world, Shalamar performed at London's Wembley Arena and went their separate ways in 1984. Soon after in 1985 till 1986, Daniel took on the role of 'Electra' in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new West End musical Starlight Express which involved wild costumes with complex choreography on roller skates. Wembley Arena at Night (Taken at a live WWE Show). ...
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By 1987, Daniel was working with Michael Jackson who had always been a fan of Daniel's dance style since watching him on Soul Train in the 70's. He was hired as co-choreographer on the "Bad" and "Smooth Criminal" videos in which he also starred with his 'dance brother' Casper Geron.
He was later employed as a creative and choreography consultant on his world tours and the video Ghosts. Daniel's music and dance expertise was then employed when he became a consultant at the MJJ Productions record label to whom Brownstone, 3T and Men of Vision were signed. Michael Jackson flew Daniel back to live in the United States from Japan where Danel had taken up residence since leaving the United Kingdom. Ghosts is a feature film by Michael Jackson which could also be classified as a long-form music video. ...
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Today, Daniel works and lives between London and in Osaka Japan. He is a fluent speaker and writer of the Japanese language with a fair grasp on Cantonese. He still continues to perform, choregraph, produce, and compose with some of the biggest names in showbusiness. He has worked with, amongst others Babyface, LL Cool J, Paul McCartney and Vanessa Williams. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ...
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Cantonese (Traditional Chinese: 粵語; Simplified Chinese: 粤è¯]], Cantonese: Yuet6yue5; Mandarin pinyin: YuèyÇ”, lit. ...
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