Long before the recording artist, actress, dancer, choreographer and music video director Toni Basil had a worldwide hit with her 1981 pop tune, "Mickey," she was instructing the likes of Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret in how to move, and recently she was taught Leonardo DiCaprio to dance like it was 1969 in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood." Kristine Johnson reports.
Fun fact: Toni Basil was a member of the Lockers, founded by Don Campbell who invented the LA street dance, Locking. Watch this rare video of Toni Basil talking to Penguin (known famously as Rerun), Shabba Doo (Ozone from the b-boy movie "Breakin'" and Poppin Pete.
And she hasn't missed a step...
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