Darrel Davis

CTL-E-0565 · Person · 1980

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Chicago stepper Darrel Davis mastered the dance by age 12 and as an adult threw parties with the social groups The Untouchables and Millennium, inviting younger generations; his later mission is to educate and unite steppers around the dance's history.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-044; source research type(s): person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

ilovesteppin.com, 'Chicago's Darrel Davis... The Key in the Center of the Alpha and the Omega' (2015)

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