Quashie’s friends plan to help during a Feb. And today, at 73, he must make costly and frequent trips to clinics because of spinal problems, worn-out knee cartilage and other ailments. Quashie said he was never able to cash in substantially on his artistic efforts. When Chubby Checker recorded his smash “Limbo Rock” in 1962, the rest was history. Quashie, who came to Harlem in 1958, was an instant hit at The Apollo. The nomination of former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to be the next ambassador to India continues to be in limbo in the US Senate with a vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee now. “But originally, it was a dance of bondage.” “When you pull out the bar, you can come out, leap up in the air and smile. “The limbo bar was a pole on the ships to hold the slaves in chains. “The limbo originated in Trinidad from out of the slave trade,” said Mike Quashie, 73, who is credited with popularizing the how-low-can-you-go dance in America. In most religious cultures, hell is a place that is beneath us - literally the lowest place you can get to (as heaven is above us) - so setting a bar low in hell means that the bar is as low as it can possibly be. When America was dancing the limbo like crazy 40-plus years ago, few knew they were taking part in a ritual that celebrated the horrors of man’s inhumanity to man. It means that expectations are not very high and the goal should be easy to achieve.
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