Choreographer

Kangol Kid

Haitian-American hip hop producer, songwriter, break dancer, and emcee

Born 1966 · BrooklynDied 2021United StatesHaiti

Kangol Kid was an American choreographer, born in 1966 in Brooklyn, who died in 2021.

Biography

Shaun Shiller Fequiere (August 10, 1966 – December 18, 2021), known by his stage name Kangol Kid, was an American hip hop producer, songwriter, break dancer, and emcee. Kangol is best known as a member of the old school hip hop group UTFO.

Kangol Kid was the first hip-hop artist to endorse a product through his official sponsorship with Kangol headwear. His signature hat has been inducted into the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Kangol Kid is considered to be one of the "pioneers of hip-hop".

From the Wikipedia article “Kangol Kid”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contemporaries

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