DJ Casper: "Social Distance Slide"
CASPER (B.K.A.) MR.C THE SLIDE MAN spawned a regional dance craze with his infamous "Cha-Cha Slide," a dance anthem much in the spirit of more recognized anthems such as "Macarena" and "Electric Slide." As a personal trainer at Bally's, Perry developed a popular aerobic dance exercise based largely on his background as a stepper (he won Chicago's annual World's Largest Steppers Contest ten (10) times).
Years later, Chicago radio station WGCI & Elroy Smith joined forces with Perry to record a song for his dance; the station also helped promote the song with advertising and even went so far as to finance a dance video. Soon labels joined the party and released the Cha-Cha Slide album, and after the song/dance became a minor phenomenon in Chicago, Universal Records picked up the album for national distribution. It dented the Billboard charts and became infamous in the Chicago area, but the "Cha-Cha Slide" remained largely a regional novelty.
He started off when he was six years of age-old school dancing and impersonating music artists such as James Brown, Teddy Pendergrass, Muddy Waters and Eddie Murphy, just to name a few. In his years of growing up he was able to get into the film field by doing such movies as Monkey Hustle & Love Jones with Nia Long & Larenz Tate, Orange Is The New Black. Casper also helped in creating a video for Musiq Soulchild entitled "Just Friends." Also Gerald Levert's video (Step On). Casper is still going strong with his music, dancing & radio career and hopes to be doing it for a long time.
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