Howard Sims
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Howard Sims
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Howard "Sandman" Sims was an African-American tap dancer who began his career in vaudeville. He was skilled in a style of dancing that he performed in a wooden sandbox of his own construction, and acquired his nickname from the sand he sprinkled to alter and amplify the sound of his dance steps. "They called the board my Stradivarius," Sims said of his sandbox. From the 1950s to the year 2000, Sims was a regular attraction—a "fixture"—at Harlem's noted Apollo Theater, comedically ushering failed
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American tap dancer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sims
date created:
2006-07-03T10:47:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T00:59:01Z
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