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Digital Only. Already a subscriber? Log in to hide this. Born Sept. Haygood wrote that Davis did this in order to avoid being entangled in the politics at a time when anti-Cuban sentiments were raging in the U. He elaborated on this point, noting that she was born in Harlem and was the daughter of Cuban Americans Marco Sanchez and Luisa Aguiar.

These revelations Haygood learned only after Elvera was dead and disclosed to him by her grandniece. Elvera launched her career in the chorus line at the Lafayette Theater in Harlem, and continued it in the chorus line at the Apollo. As a tot Davis, Jr. By the time he was 10, he was deemed a tap dancing prodigy, trained by his father but with genetic help from Elvera.

When Sammy finally appeared on the stage of the Apollo, Elvera was in the chorus line.