Cooley Jaxson

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Please let me know if this song is good enough for Black Panther part 2 The Movie. I think with a dance funky African groove it will spice up the movie. Not that Black Panther isn't great I just want to help part 2 to become the bomb....

Funky and talented dancer Derek "Cooley" Jackson was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised in the Santa Ana area. Cooley traces his dance talent to his aunt and mother, who were both dancers. Jackson produced and choreographed a show with friends called "The Boppers" in high school. He was discovered by choreographer Anita Mann in 1978. Cooley appeared in shows at Disneyland and traveled with Mann to Germany, where he appeared in a musical variety revue called "Hello, Here's Berlin" with such celebrities as Lola Falana, Liza Minnelli, Wayne Newton, and Ben Vereen. Moreover, Jackson was a partner in a limousine service. In 1983 Cooley joined the cast of the immensely popular music variety TV series "Solid Gold" as a regular featured dancer and remained on the show until 1986. Jackson is widely noted as one of the first street-style dancers to introduce breakdancing to a mass audience in the 80s. He can be seen busting some fancy poppin' and lockin' breakdance moves in the films "Breakin'" and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo." In addition, Cooley taught Michael Jackson how to do the moonwalk. In 1986 Jackson had three dance groups that performed in California high schools: The Cooley Bop Crew, Trademarc, and Triple Threat. He appeared in Anita Mann's production of "Tap Girls," which toured resort hotels and casinos from 1998 to 1999. Cooley also played the White Ranger in the LIVE traveling Power Ranger Show and Grover in a stage production of "Sesame Street Live" which toured America and formed a rap group called the Cooley Bop Cru. Recently he released a rap CD called "You Down With Cooley B" He now calls himself Cooley Jaxson. Cooley lives in Rocklin, California and works as a audio video technician.

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ABC 20/20 is doing a special on Michael Jackson and they interviewed me on 20/20. stay tune for the air date in MAY.

Two young dancers, Caszper Candidate and Cooley Jaxson, who taught it to him directly.

In 1979, Caszper and Cooley had appeared on Soul Train. They performed a dance called the Boogaloo, named after a street-dancing group, the Electric Boogaloos. For four minutes, dressed in black, they ignored the laws of gravity and physics, pulling off hip thrusts and acrobatic leaps set to MJ's "Workin' Day and Night."

Caszper and Cooley aren't sure how their dance clip came to Michael Jackson's attention, but they suspect he watched the show as it aired — it was his song, after all. Some of those moves, particularly the pelvic thrusts and sideways motions that make dancers' legs look like rubber bands, had already landed in the "Beat It" video. As he was preparing for his Motown 25 performance, Michael asked one of his managers to track down the duo. Jaxson, auditioning for Sesame Street Live in San Francisco, flew to Los Angeles, where he met Candidate at a large rehearsal space. A boom box sat on the floor. Michael introduced himself. They talked for five hours. All he wanted to talk about was the backslide. "Where did it come from?" he kept asking. "Where did it start?"

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Coming soon!!! new DVD.
Learn The Moonwalk 5 Ways.

One of the things I like is to make music to dance to. Old School sound bring out the funk and groove in your body and soul.
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This is are performance back in the day on the Miracle TV Telethon in the 80's

That is my Crew back in the day when we were on miracles TV telethon