"To the left. Take it back now, y'all." All it took for rapper DJ Casper to soar into everlasting music royalty was one hit song and dance that became a global phenomenon. And he did just that with ...

The Chicago native, born Willie Perry Jr., wrote the song as an exercise track for his nephew in the late 1990s before it exploded in popularity... The musical mind behind the "Cha Cha Slide" — the ...

Controversy over who really is responsible for the hit line-dance record, “Cha-Cha Slide” has reached the federal courts. On March 31, Willie Perry, Jr., known as DJ Casper, and Jerome Haywood filed a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Answer Cancer is an initiative aimed at wiping out that deadly disease, and a popular local entertainer is doing his part. There is little doubt he hasn't had you on the dance floor ...

The hand claps sound upbeat, the grooves slightly funky and the moves smooth. Importantly, the instructions are so basic anyone between the ages of 3 and 93 can follow them. “Cha Cha Slide” has been ...

In deeply un-funky news, DJ Casper, creator of the “Cha Cha Slide,” is dead at the age of 58. His wife, Kim, told Chicago’s ABC News 7 that the DJ and hype man died on August 7 of cancer, after being ...

DJ Casper, the Chicago-born-and-based DJ and producer who created the line dance classic "Cha Cha Slide," passed away on August 7 after a battle with kidney and liver cancer, ABC7 Chicago reports. He ...

DJ Casper - the musician behind dance hit the Cha Cha Slide - has died at the age of 58. His wife told ABC7 Chicago the musician, who was diagnosed with kidney and liver cancer in 2016, had passed ...

DJ Casper, the creator of the dance hit and wedding reception staple “Cha Cha Slide,” died Monday following a seven-year battle with cancer. He was 58. His death was reported by his wife Kim to ...

CHICAGO -- Answer Cancer is an initiative aimed at wiping out that deadly disease, and a popular entertainer is doing his part. There is little doubt he's hasn't had you on the dance floor many, many ...

DJ Casper, the creator of party hit “Cha Cha Slide”, has died aged 58. The Chicago-based musician died on Monday (7 August), seven years after he was diagnosed with kidney and liver cancer. His death ...