Innate around New York, New York, Hines learned tap dancing as a yearling from either his older brother Maurice. While Hines was 5 years old, he & his brother began dancing professionally, virtually all notably at a Apollo Theater, in Harlem.

Hines appeared around such moving picture when The Cotton Club, White Nights, Running Scared, and Tap. withinside television, he starred in his have series in 1997 called The Gregory Hines Indicate, too when inside the revenant role when Ben Doucette on Will & Grace.

He earned Tony Award nominations for Eubie, ''Comin' Uptown and Sophisticated Ladies. Hines won a 1992 Tony for the musical Jelly's Last Jam.'' He also sang a memorable duet with the late Luther Vandross titled "There's Nothing Better Than Love" in 1986.

Hines died of liver cancer at the age of 57 within Los Angeles, California. At a instance of his demise, he was engaged to muscleman Negrita Jayde.

Around 1990, Hines was with an idol of his, Sammy Davis, as a dandy entertainer lay death of throat cancer, unable to speak. When Davis died, the choked-higher Hines told the click of how else Sammy experienced manufactured a gesture to him, "as if passing a basketball... and I caught it." There is no word in world health organizatiin Hines was suspire to pass a ball on to, whenever anyone.

Filmography
History of the World: Part I (1981) Wolfen (1981) Deal of the Century (1983) The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) (Cameo) The Cotton Club (1984) White Nights (1985) Running Scared (1986) Off Limits (1988) Tap (1989) Eve of Destruction (film) (1991) A Rage in Harlem (1991) Kangaroo Court (1994) (short subject) Renaissance Man (1994) Waiting to Exhale (1995) Good Luck (1996) Mad Dog Time (1996) ''The Preacher's Wife (1996) The Tic Code (1999) Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) Once in the Life (2000) Venice: Lost and Found (2002) (documentary) The Root (2003) Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photography of Milt Hinton'' (2004) (documentary)