From left: Adolfo Quiñones (Shabba-Doo) with Jamie Kennedy in 2007
He played Ozone in the two Breakin films and worked with everyone from Frank Sinatra and Bette Midler to Madonna and Three 6 Mafia.
Adolfo Quiñones, the admired actor, dancer and choreographer known as Shabba-Doo who specialized in the art of locking and portrayed the street artist Ozone in the two
Breakin movies of the 1980s, has died. He was 65.
Dubbed hip-hop s first matinee idol by
Dance Magazine, Quiñones died late Tuesday night at his home in Los Angeles. In an interview with
The Hollywood Reporter, his publicist, Biff Warren, noted that the dancer had tested negative for COVID-19, but the next day he s dead. It opens up all kinds of questions.