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| | American Tap Dance Foundation |
 | | TAP DANCE HALL OF Return to Inductee List |
 | | Sammy Davis, Jr., singer, dancer, actor, and musician (who played vibraphone trumpet, and drums), was born on December 8, 1925 to the Puerto-Rican-born tap dancer Elvera "Baby" Sanchez, and Sammy Davis, Sr., an African-American vaudevillian who was the lead dancer in Will Mastin's Holiday in Dixieland. |
 | | As an infant, he was raised by his paternal grandmother, Rosa B. ("Mama") Davis, in an apartment on 140th Street and Eighth Avenue in New York City. |
| www.atdf.org /awards/davisjr.html (897 words) |
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