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Stage Name |
Birth Name |
| Gil
Brady |
Gil
Brady |
| Nicki
Brady |
Nicki
Faustino |
Gil and Nicky Brady were Jitterbug and West
Coast Swing champions in the 1940s and 1950s. They together and
separately danced in many movies such as "Don't Knock The
Rock", "Benny Goodman Story" and "Rock Around
the Clock". They won numerous awards and Swing dance championship
titles against such swing notables as Dean Collins, Lou Southern,
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Hal Takier and Jack Carey. Gil now resides
in Las Vegas, NV. (2002.) They can be spotted in the movies they
danced by looking for Gil's signature 'Glasses'. Gil and Nicki
Opened Cesars Palace in Las Vegas wirth Frank Sinatra and also
had a dance group called 'Gil and Nicki and the So and So's.
Gil and Nicki were inducted into the "California Swing Dance
Hall of Fame" in 1991.
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