The International Lindy Hop Championships would like to recognize and honor those who have come before us and who helped develop, drive and keep the flame of Lindy Hop alive in all of us. The Frankie Manning Trailblazer Award and induction into the Hall of fame is for Lifetime Achievement. At ILHC 2012 the very 1st International Lindy Hop Hall of Fame recipient went to Frankie Manning.

Sugar Sullivan

Sugar Sullivan started her career as a performer, choreographer, teacher and professional dancer at the age of nine. Sugar was a member of the Original Jazz Dancers, a distinguished group of Lindy Hoppers and Hoofers from Harlem's heyday. Sugar has been featured with the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band, Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho Orchestra, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Count Basie Orchestra, and Panama Francis and his Savoy Sultans among others. Sugar learned to dance at home and started Tap dancing at age three. She was instructed in Tap by Buster Brown of the Copasetics at age seven. Sugar toured the United States and Canada for fifteen years with Sonny Allen and the Rockets (Song and Dance Revue).

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