Let’s go back down memory lane. Where are my Soul Train fans? Remember Jeffrey Daniel from the original members of Shalamar? He turns 54 today! Wow! Look at how time flies!
Jeffrey Daniel is an American dancer, singer-songwriter and choreographer, most notable for being a member of the R&B vocal group Shalamar. In Nigeria he is best known as an Idol series judge.
Today, Daniel works and lives between London and Osaka, Japan. He is a fluent speaker and writer of the Japanese language with a fair grasp of Cantonese. He continues to perform, choreograph, produce, and compose with some of the biggest names in show business]. He has worked with, amongst others, Babyface, LL Cool J, Paul McCartney, Sheena Easton and Vanessa Williams.
Daniel first performed “the backslide”,a physically complicated dance technique, now known as the “moonwalk” on British television, during a performance of Shalamar’s “A Night to Remember” on Top of the Pops. The song was a hit in 1982, almost a year before Michael Jackson moon-walked on the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forevertelevision broadcast; he was a big fan of Soul Train; on which Jeffrey Daniels had been a back-up dancer. According to Jackson’s sister La Toya, Jackson was a fan of Daniel’s dancing and sought him out. He soon met, hired and learned from Daniel.
Source: Daily Prep
