"I will always treasure our journey together," actress Debbie Allen wrote in an Instagram tribute Dominik Bindl/Getty for Film at Lincoln Center Maurice Hines, Broadway star and brother of fellow ...
Gregory Oliver Hines was born on Feb. 14, 1946, in New York City. He has said his mother urged him and his older brother toward tap dancing because she wanted them to have a way out of the ghetto.
NEW YORK — Breathtaking tap dancer Gregory Hines, who dazzled on Broadway and in films and television, while always insisting he was ‘‘just a hoofer at heart,'' died Saturday of cancer. He was 57.