Adolfo Quinones

Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Shabba Doo is the stage name of Adolfo Quiñones (born May 11, 1955), an American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director. He became one of the founders of the dance style commonly known as locking as a member of The Original Lockers with Toni Basil, Don "Campbellock" Campbell and Fred "Rerun" Berry. Quiñones' most well known role was the role of Ozone in the 1984 hit cult film, Breakin' and its sequel, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. He appeared in the film Rave - Dancing to a Different Beat, which he also directed. Quiñones has made guest appearances on TV shows, including The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Married... with Children, Miami Vice, What's Happening!!, Saturday Night Live and Lawrence Leung's Choose Your Own Adventure. Besides his acting and dancing work in film and television, he has served as a choreographer to many singers such as Lionel Richie, Madonna, and Luther Vandross. He was a primary dancer and main choreographer for Madonna's Who's That Girl Tour in 1987. Presently he serves as choreographer for Jamie Kennedy's new MTV sitcom, Blowin' Up. He choreographed Three Six Mafia's performance on the 78th Academy Awards. The group won the Oscar for best original song for their song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp". Quiñones (along with his Breakin' co-star Michael "Boogaloo Shrimp" Chambers and other dancers from the film) is prominently featured in the music video for Chaka Khan's 1984 song "I Feel for You". Description above from the Wikipedia article Shabba Doo , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting

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Madonna: Ciao, Italia! - Live from Italy

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In "Ciao, Italia! Live from Italy" Madonna visits the land of her noble heritage for this high-energy concert video filmed in 1987. It contained footage from a previous TV special of the Who's That Girl World Tour, Madonna in Concerto, broadcast in Europe in 1987, filmed at the Stadio Comunale in Turin, Italy. The video release also contained footage from shows recorded in Florence, Italy and Tokyo, Japan. The tour supported her 1986 third studio album True Blue, as well as the 1987 soundtrack Who's That Girl.

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Self - Dancer

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Breakin'

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A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

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The dance crew from "Breakin'" bands together to save a community center from a greedy developer bent on building a shopping center in its place.

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Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Ozone

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Madonna: Who's That Girl - Live in Japan

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Who's That Girl: Live in Japan contained a live date from the Who's That Girl World Tour, filmed at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo, Japan on June 22, 1987. The tour supported her 1986 third studio album True Blue, as well as the 1987 soundtrack Who's That Girl. It was Madonna's first world tour, reaching Asia, North America and Europe. Musically and technically superior to her previous initiative, the Who's That Girl Tour incorporated multimedia components to make the show more appealing.

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Madonna: Who's That Girl - Live in Japan

Self - Dancer

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Lambada

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Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin's double life, his two worlds collide, threatening his job and reputation.

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Lambada

Ramone

Breakin' 'n' Enterin'MOVIE

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Breakin' 'n' Enterin'

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Documentary about the LA hip hop/electro scene in the early 80s.

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Breakin' 'n' Enterin'

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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

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A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.

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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

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Deadly Dancer

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A police detective, investigating a string of murders of strippers at a Los Angeles night club, must race against the clock to clear his name when he's wrongfully accused of being the killer.

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Deadly Dancer

Tony Penter (as Shabba-Doo)

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Steel Frontier

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Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of New Hope, the only place around with a working oil refinery. Ever since a megalomaniac general and his followers took over the place, life has been miserable. Then a stranger, a man-of-few-words, comes to town. A quick-drawing gunslinger, he first joins the conquerors. As time passes, however, it rapidly becomes apparent that he really sides with the townsfolk, and when the time is right, he leads them into a violent uprising.

The Sitter

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A delusional babysitter goes on a psychotic rampage, putting the little girl she is looking after in grave danger.

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The Sitter

Nick (as Shabba-Doo)

Rave and Ecstasy! A cult film waiting to happen! written and directed by Shooba-Doo (who also co-stars as a drug lord); with Anne Betancourt, Ray Oriel, Eddie Garcia, Shawn Alex Thompson, Gina Philips and Keri Jo Chapman; a street-smart (but often laughable and self-righteous) exploitation movie in the fine tradition of MARIJUANA; a dancer uses tainted drugs to seduced, rape and kill young females in underground rave clubs

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Rave, Dancing to a Different Beat

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