i don't know he represented things that are starting to fade right in front of us we got a hold on just like and to be honest sometimes that tough love is necessary and greg used to have some of that tough love out best believe it wasn't love twenty four hours a day you know he kept it real to he was honest you know and he would respect everybody in a room i'll never  the st time i got to work with gregory on sesame street yes savey i was there were usa he was there and i remember watching gregory walk on set and he literally d walked around the entire set and shook everyone's hand everyone's hand and that meant so much to me because at that point he was already you know a superstar but for him to be able to be down to earth and still be who he was that's what ma gregory high special not because he was just a nice guy but because he was still one of us and he represented us no matter what point he got to  never forgot the community he community came from never he actually way out of his way to celebrate his teachers and his eye to us even if the people didn't know who they were he was still talk about people like you know baby lawrence chuck green jimmy slot ma chaney buster brown he spoke their names we got to keep speaking their names too we can't forget we come from these people we come from these masters the only reason we are here is because of people like gregory hines so every time we lace up the issue let's remember that not just one is convenient not just when it we get paid for it but when it when we were member why we do this let's remember gregory because he is that symbol gregory's older brother who took care of gregory who watched the community we're so proud of him because he still i can't believe how she felt he is and still dancing his heart out welcome the family i mean look i handsome he looks on that stamp card yes it was he was beautiful as he was beautiful as a baby was beautiful as a young man he's been beautiful all his life he'll always be beautiful to me you know honest i was now so i remember those years i know i look good i got it trim and she put them on the bed and she said this is your baby so this is your baby and he always was always was even when we had our problems with brothers have their problems you know but we always come that respect for each other and love for each other you know and i am i have to be always honest i'm a lonely without him i'm lone she said but why she said because they have something very special she said well all the kids especially so yeah they are but they have this charisma that when they dance they look at each other like they're happy to be with each other and that will go to the audience the audience will feel that and the st time we worked the apollo theater very st time the very st time we were when we were seven and fifty seven and five years but what they didn't realize is that we really could tell so we got on the show we got after the amateur night put aside and ruth brown the great ruth brown was coming in next week and she was in the audience she said i tell you what put them on the show with me next week and that's really how we started from ruth brown at the apollo theater that's how we start well my my brother was very he was very supportive you know he was very supportive as a man and as a as a brother to me because when i decided to go into to take ballet and take jazz gregory said go on and do that movies go on because i was the shot was great it was very aggressive and very animated i was shocked do that that's what you want to do the do that was so fast and he could do so many things that when it came time to do it he would forgotten it and when we do great we would look at it and then aris would remember it because it took me so long to learn it blend so well together but greg we played johnny mathis reckon we learned how to hold notes learn how to sing on the top learn the middle learn how to phrase and of course he said you know all that's good to get some that can cal introduce or i have to i know she's standing here but you know i'm re proud i have to say something to the stair gregory i love you when you were born i loved you all through your life i will go through to my end of my life i can't see anybody but i think that rather than tell so many stories that i haven't so well about my dad i would really like to thank the united states postal service for coming up with this idea i think yeah he was then i show you i'm very grateful for their honoring his legacy and his contribution and to dance and i think my father left behind a creative history renaissance man he taught himself how to do things just like my uncle said it doesn't have to do with money it has to do with your passion and your dreams and you can teach yourself things you can seek out teachers if you if you  want they could be on a record that you learn from so i think that that really filled his heart with joy the fact that he got inspiration as a child and  stated so beautifully he gave back to young people was really important for him to go out and teach young people to teach master classes i think we all are teachers in some way or another and anything you can do to give back in your own little village his village happened to be a lot of dense areas but we all have a village that we can give back to and jason really and celebrating artists and people that give us inspiration is what makes this world one of the things so wonderful yeah ok and then i would just like to say thank you so much everyone for coming here and celebrating my thank you and i'm krista hart recording of the st day of issue for the gregory hines here in new york city hope you've enjoyed the show and thanks for watching