D. Ray White is the father of the folk dancer of what nationality?
D. Ray White Donald Ray White, more commonly known as D. Ray White, (April 17, 1927 – July 2, 1985), was an American mountain dancer and entertainer, and the patriarch of the White family. He has been featured in several American documentary films that detail the White family. His style was a subtle mix of tap and clog dancing that is native to the Appalachian Mountains and Appalachia. D. Ray rose to regional stardom before his murder in 1985 and became known as one of the greatest mountain dancers of his time. His son, Jesco White, known as "The Dancing Outlaw," who has also been the subject of several documentaries, has carried on his style and continues to perform.
Jimmy Mordecai Jimmy Mordecai also known as James Mordecai was a Harlem-based jazz tap dancer in the 1920s and 1930s. James Mordecai was born in New York City in 1905. His father was Samuel Mordecai and his mother Sara Cunningham immigrated into these United States from British West Indies in 1901 through Cuba. He was in the cast of a 1924 touring show called "Cotton Land," with music by James P. Johnson. He was a member of a popular dance trio, Wells, Mordecai and Taylor (with Dickie Wells and Ernest Taylor -- the trio also was known as the Hot Feet Boys and the Three Klassy Kids), with whom he performed at the Cotton Club in 1930 with a Duke Ellington revue called "Brown Sugar (Sweet But Unrefined)." In that revue, he danced with Cora LaRedd, a renowned tap dancer active at the time.