Gregory Oliver Hines was born on Feb. 14, 1946, in New York City. He has said his mother urged him and his older brother toward tap dancing because she wanted them to have a way out of the ghetto.

Maurice Hines, dancer and choreographer — and evangelist for the art of tap dancing — died Friday at age 80. Hines and his brother, the famed Gregory Hines, helped keep tap in the public eye.

Maurice Hines, Broadway star and brother of fellow tap-dancing legend Gregory Hines, has died. He was 80. Maurice died on Friday of natural causes at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey ...

Maurice Hines, tap-dancing icon and ‘The Cotton Club’ star, dies at 80 The tap-dancing icon, whose younger brother Gregory Hines was also a dance legend, died at the Actors Fund Home, an ...

Maurice Hines, Broadway star and tap dancing legend with brother Gregory, has died of natural causes at age 80. Broadway has lost one of its tap-dancing legends. Maurice Hines, the brother of the ...

Tap-dancing icon Maurice Hines, Broadway actor, star of "The Cotton Club" and the older brother of Gregory Hines, died Dec. 29, 2023, at age 80.