Howard "Sandman" Sims

By ike mason

  • Birth of Sims

    Sims was an American tap-dancer who began his career in vaudeville. He was skilled in a style of dancing that he performed in a wooden sandbox

  • Sims becomes a founding member of the Original Copasetics

    Exact date is unkown. It was a fellowship of tap dancers that became a source of mentor-student relationships and helped bring the revival of tap in the 1970's-80's

  • Became stage manager at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York

    Exact date is unkown. Somewhere around the mid-1950's

  • Married his wife Solange

    Exact date is unkown. It happened sometime in the year 1959

  • Sims receives National Heritage Fellowship award from the National Endowment for the Arts

    Exact date is unkown. Event occured sometime in the year 1984

  • Sims dies at the age of 86