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Adolfo “Shabba-Doo” Quiñones, a Chicago native whose high-energy break-dancing was showcased in the two “Breakin’ ” films of the 1980s, has died at 65.
Singer-dancer Toni Basil, his former teammate in the Lockers street-dance crew, posted on her Facebook page, “It is with extreme sadness the Lockers family announces the unexpected passing of our beloved Adolfo Shabba-doo Quiñones. In this difficult time we are requesting privacy.”
Quiñones grew up in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing development, where he learned to invent his own aggressive but fluid dance moves.
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