The Clark Brothers, Steve and Jimmy, were in show business for over eighty years. Born and brought up during the depression in the southern states of America, they first went on the road at the age of just four and the surviving brother, Steve, is still working today. Steve is one of the few entertainers to have been presented at seven Royal Command performances over the years, and the only black artist to have had as many headlining appearances.

As dancers, the brothers witnessed the birth of Las Vegas, played the Cotton Club and Apollo in Harlem, as well as being staples in the burgeoning Cuba entertainment scene prior to the Castro Revolution. They were contemporaries and shared the stage with luminaries such as Josephine Baker, Frank Sinatra, Gypsy Rose Lee, Elvis Presley, The Beatles and several others. They moved to the United Kingdom in 1948, initially on tour, and subsequently became dance tutors to several of the British pop groups of the ‘Swinging Sixties’, including Cliff Richard & The Shadows, and Freddie & The Dreamers. They did their first command performance at Windsor Castle in 1948. Steve and his brother were staples on the popular Sunday Night at the Palladium from 1955 through till 1974.

The Clark brothers were self-taught dancers and choreographers. Steve says, “We never had a tap teacher. Jimmy and I taught each other. This was why we were able to create a style that was never emulated by other tap dancers that were around at the time”.

Steve Clark was born in 1914, two years after his brother Jimmy. Jimmy passed away in 2009.