‘Breakin’ star Bruno ‘Pop N Taco’ Falcon dead: Michael Jackson dancer was 58

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sister Diana Wolgamott confirmed to local news outlets. Not official cause of death has been confirmed but she said she believes he might have died of a heart attack.The East LA native was a mainstay in the street dance scene throughout the ’80s and ’90s.“People couldn’t believe there was a Mexican who could pop,” Falcon once told Soc!ety Dance Academy magazine. “They would challenge me in front of the school or a party or a high school dance.

They’d come out, right at you, right in front of your face.” He got his big mainstream break as Electro Rock 1 in the 1984 breakdancing hit “Breakin,'” starring alongside rapper and future “Law & Order: SVU” star Ice-T and dancer Adolfo Adolfo ‘Shabba Doo’ Quinones, who proceeded Falcon in death at 65 in 2020.“Yep, just got a text,” Ice-T, 64, tweeted when fans asked him if he’d heard the news. “He was way to [sic] young.

Smh.”Falcon also collaborated with Michael Jackson and danced in the King of Pop’s classic “Smooth Criminal” music video, for which he reportedly choreographed the now-signature, “anti-gravity lean” move.In addition to dancing for Janet Jackson, Lionel Richie and Chaka Khan, Falco also appeared in a pair of Jackson’s short film projects: “Captain EO,” directed by “Godfather” Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola in 1986, followed by 1988’s “Moonwalker.”After co-starring in the lackluster sequel “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo,” Falcon appeared in 1991’s “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” opposite Keanu Reeves and he choreographed live action sequences for Don Bluth’s “Thumbelina” in 1994.Veteran actress-singer-choreographer Toni Basil, — who starred alongside Jack Nicholson in “Easy Rider,” choreographed “The Rose” and belted out the iconic ’80s dance track “Mickey!” — also.