Dancer Fayard Nicholas undergoes heart surgery; honored in New York with brother, Harold Nicholas.(Celebrities)

From: Jet | Date: May 4, 1998 | Copyright information

Veteran dancer Fayard Nicholas of the legendary Nicholas Brothers, believes in the old show business saying, "the show must go on."

Not even heart surgery stopped the 83-year-old dancer from showing up at New York's Carnegie Hall to be honored along with his brother, Harold Nicholas.

Fayard recently underwent a new and revolutionary operation called Port-Access minimally invasive cardiac surgery. The operation enabled his doctor to fix a hole in Fayard's h...

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