![]() Three years ago we came into our spirituality and forgiveness and became better people. He said, 'Michael, I'm gonna go to a Bible convention in Long Beach and I'd love to sit with you and talk and move on.' So when he came to my house and we talked, I was like, 'Wow, he's different.' Jesus forgave sinners, so who am I? I was willing to accept his peace offering and forgive. "He had actually contacted me out of nowhere," Chambers said. And we both were in dark places and going through problems."īut, he says, they bonded over both becoming Bible students as Jehovah's Witnesses. He felt smighted that in literature and media, nobody mentioned his name. He felt that from myself as well as the dance community, he never got the due respect he was entitled to as the first professional street dancer being on TV. It was not a beef, it was a misunderstanding. "But at the end of the day, he's my spiritual brother. "Because of this longstanding beef people thought we had, they've always taken our situation and stirred the pot," he said. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)Ĭhambers said that the ebb and flow of his friendship with his costar Quiñones had been the source of a lot of speculation among Breakin' fans over the years. And I've always just looked younger than my age, you know." Adolfo "Shabba Doo" Quiñones in Breakin'. I was really a full-fledged man of 30 years old playing an 18-year-old. In a 2008 interview, when he was 53, the dancer said, "That's a number that kind of surprises people because when they think about the Breakin' movies, they thought of me as a kid dancing. He noted that he often passed for younger than his age on screen. He made television appearances as a dancer as far back as 1976, on What's Happening!!įor a daily dose of 9Honey, sign up here to receive our top stories straight to your inbox ![]() ![]() "I'd get there at 7 in the morning and not leave till almost 10 at night."īesides working for Richie, his choreography credits included Madonna's 1987 Who's That Girl? tour and TV work on MTV's Blowin' Up. In a 1984 interview with the Sarasota Sun-Herald, he recalled moving to California with his mother when he was 16, and how he would hitchhike from their home in Anaheim to Hollywood for 14-hour filming sessions of Soul Train in 1971-72 "They couldn't keep me out of there," he said. Popular dancer Adolfo Quinones aka Shabba Doo boogies down the Soul Train Line circa 1973-1976. But now it the world."īorn in Chicago to a Black father and Puerto Rican mother, who raised him by herself from when he was 3, Quiñones broke into show business as a member of TV's Soul Train Gang. It did come from Black people, and Africans, and Puerto Ricans and all that too. And that I think was key."īut, he added, "Hip-hop may have a multi-cultural face, but let's not be fooled, because it did come from our people. … in the middle of all these Black people Spanish people… and they totally identified with that. And Breakin' showed that, with that white girl in it. It wasn't really something that everybody did. But it was perceived through the media as being only a black culture or Hispanic culture. When I went out, I saw whites and blacks and Hispanics and I saw Asians and whatever all working together and doing it together. … I think that it was the first film that showed hip-hop … had a multicultural face to it. If it didn't work I think this culture would have been in trouble… We had Beat Street everybody was throwing their hat in the ring, but it was Breakin' the one that really worked. "It broke box office records and was the beginning of the hip-hop movement as we know it. ![]() "It took only 21 days to make Breakin' at a budget of $900,000," he said. In a 2008 interview with the Black Hollywood File, he discussed the making and impact of Breakin', saying it was critical in the development of hip-hop culture. ![]()
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