Michael Jackson Was My Dance Student - Jeffrey Daniel

AUGUST 9, 2014 Sources: Sunday Newswatch | All Things Michael Jeffrey Shalamar, we were doing a series of concerts at Disneyland and then my Road Manager Stanley, Dillard, said, "Jeffrey, your student is coming to see you." I said 'who? He said "Michael Jackson is coming to see you at Disneyland"' and I said, 'really?' So Michael brought little Janet Jackson with him and they stood on the side of the stage and watched because I was already doing the backslide on stage and body popping and people were going bananas. So, Michael wanted to know this dance so he came down to watch us and the next thing I knew, I got a phone call and that is when I started teaching him in 1980. But he didn't do it the moon walk until 1983. I did it on Soul Train in 1979 and in 1982 on Top of the Pops on British television but Michael would do it a year later in the Motown 25th with Billy Jean. We worked together from 1980 to almost 2000. The last job I had with him was in the late 90s' and then I moved to Japan in 2000 and I've been in Japan since until now that I'm in Nigeria. The MJ experience First, it was unbelievable. Michael had a reputation for being very illusive and introverted. Suddenly, you're just one on one with him, and you're like, all right. Okay, I have to admit, at first, I was star struck, of course I was. It didn't take Thriller and Billy Jean for him to become a star, he was a superstar for the black community from the day one. So for me, just being one on one with him was amazing. Our relationship was great. We really had a lot of fun together and we talked about everything. He was very inquisitive, so he asked about everything. He and I are both Virgos. I was born August 24th, he was born August 29th and we did not know that we were so much alike in a sense that I'm the kind of person who would wait for someone to propose to me. I had that problem with girls. Girls are waiting for me to make the first move while I am waiting for them, so a lot of times nothing happens. They think I'm not interested because I'm not jumping on them, but I just don't jump on things like that. Our musical tastes were also very similar. ...And the beat goes on Because I was Michael's choreographer, everybody wanted me. I worked with the actress singer, Vanessa Williams, I did her debut video. I did Johnny Hughes debut video, I worked with Arnold Schwarzzeneger and Danny DeVito on the movie Twins, Baby Face, LL Cool J, Will Smith for the Grammy's, Japanese artistes that you wouldn't know, UK artistes a group called Incognito, LaToya Jackson, Randy Jackson, Marlon Jackson, I didn't work with Janet because I was Michael's choreographer and she had her own. http://www.mydailynewswatchng.com/michael-jackson-dance-student-jeffrey-daniel/