The headspin’s almost like a handstand you put your hands on the ground and you’re on your head, inverted. Washington Square Park, New York, New York, early 1980s. Here, the legend deconstructs the language of breaking for us, with a bit of Hip-Hop history on the side. Oh, and he may have inspired Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, but he’s too humble to take that crown. The kid who started out breaking for money on the Redondo Beach Pier in California went on to appear in Chaka Khan’s “I Feel for You” video as well as tour as a backup dancer with Lionel Richie, play Urkelbot on Family Matters, choreograph Bart Simpson in the “Do the Bartman” video, appear in Sugar Ray’s “Fly” video, dance in a Nancy Reagan PSA, and teach breaking around the world.īoogaloo Shrimp and Shabbadoo perform October 1985. But Chambers, known in dance circles as Boogaloo Shrimp, demoed his talents in many other touchstones of popular culture throughout the ’80s and ’90s. Everybody knows Michael Chambers as Turbo, the cute kid who did the Fred Astaire–inspired broom dance in Breakin’ and the ceiling scene in Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.
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