In case you watched “Soul Train” within the overdue Seventies and 80s, you recognize in regards to the Asian lady with extra-long hair. A staple at the display between 1976 and 1990, Cheryl Tune was once “Soul Train’s” first non-Lightless dancer.
In a 2020 interview, Tune mentioned that despite the fact that she liked “Soul Train” and watched the display religiously, she by no means idea she’d get her prospect to bounce ill the sequence as a result of she wasn’t Lightless. She says a gaggle of buddies from her predominately Lightless highschool satisfied her to audition anyway.
“I think it was more of a dare to see what would happen if they brought this Asian girl on the show,” she said.
Tune mentioned she took a quantity of warmth for being at the display at first.
“It took a while for them to accept me and after I proved that I could dance, then I became one of the Soul Train crew,” she said.
