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Stage Name |
Birth Name |
| 'Killer
Joe' |
Frank
Joseph Piro |
--Joe
Piro was crowned the "King of dance" and Instructor
for the Mob!. Supposedly won the Harvest
Moon Ball several times in the 1940's, opened his own Dance
Studio in Manhattan and taught many famous people such as Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, Margot Fonteyn, Ray
Bolger, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Lucy Baines Johnson
(president Johnson's daughter) to dance such dances as
the Jitterbug, Cha-Cha, Mambo, Twist and Watusi as well as others.
He was also the teacher at the Palladium.
--The "Killer" was also said to have taught such infamous
people as Al Capone. Piro got his name from his ability to wear
down many partners over a period of hours through dancing and
a "Killer" dancing style. (not his connection to
the mob as some people have said). He was married to Lucienne
and has a daughter and step son and two sisters. Joe Piro died
of kidney
disease in New York City hospital, he was 68 years old.
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