Nigerian man who is also a Czech Repu
Eblic choreographer, Yemi Akinyemi Dele, has been selected by Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa for a trip to the moon.
The 41-year-old choreographer will be among the eight crew members to join Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa crew on a trip around the Moon next year on one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets. Four years after announcing the moon mission aboard SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has named the eight people he wants to fly with him which Yemi was among the crew.
In 2018, Maezawa said he’d fund a mission aimed at letting creative artists on the level of the late Pablo Picasso or Michael Jackson experience, a trip beyond Earth orbit. Yemi, the Czech-born Nigerian artiste, started off as a dancer, choreographer but later moved behind the scene in order to work with top artistes and brands globally. Yemi father is a Nigerian but he grew up with his mother in Czech Republic.
