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,

    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.