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'Shabba-Doo' Quinones

Actor/dancer

Born - 11 May 1955, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died - 30 December 2020

Slimline break-dancing sensation, and later choreographer, of Afro-Amrican and Puerto Rican heritage, who starred in several popular hip-hop musicals in his twenties and thirties. Born Adolfo Quinones, he was dancing in TV shows at 21 and entered films in Jukebox (1978). Later films include Xanadu (1980), Breakin' (1983), Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984), Tango & Cash (1989), Lambada (1990), Deadly Dancer (1990), Rave: Dancing to a Different Beat (1993), Steel Frontier (1995), Option Zero (2016) and Ringsend (2021), his last. He was found dead from as-yet undetermined causes.