No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

She also once had a group called Crossfit Cali Band with friends Rebecca Rose and Avis Marshall. She also taught a step drill team at an elementary school in Milwaukee. Adedapo is a dancer with Ko-Thi an Afri-centric dance company and sings with her husband in R.

Adedapo placed in the top 11 on the tenth season of American Idol. Naima Adedapo (born October 5 1984) is an American singer and dancer from Milwaukee Wisconsin.