Fayard Nicholas

Continued to tap dance and spoke frequently at dance festivals around the world until suffering a stroke in November 2005.

The Nicholas Brothers were inducted into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame (2002) (inaugural class).

He and Harold Nicholas were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7083 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 2, 1994.

Dancing for nine U.S. Presidents through the course of their careers, the brothers were awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1991).

Won Broadway's 1989 Tony Award for Best Choreography for the musical review "Black and Blue", along with collaborators Cholly Atkins, Henry LeTang and Frankie Manning.

Compliments followed them wherever they went. Dancer extraordinaire Fred Astaire once called The Nicholas Brothers' "Jumpin' Jive" dance sequence in the film Stormy Weather (1943) the greatest movie musical number he had ever seen. Famed choreographer George Balanchine called their acrobatic movement ballet, despite their lack of formal training. Tapper Gregory Hines once said that if a film were ever made about the Nicholas Brothers, the dance numbers would have to be computer-generated because nobody could duplicate them. Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov once called them the most amazing dancers he had ever seen in his life.

Fayard Nicholas was one-half of The Nicholas Brothers, a famous African-American tap dancing team who appeared in several movies and became one of the famous and most beloved dance team of all time. Both brothers appeared in films such as An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), The Pirate (1948) and The Five Heartbeats (1991).