Dancing Around 'American Idol': Where did Naima Adedapo learn her moves?

Showing off serious motion, Naima Adedapo slapped a funky tribal spin on her cover of “Dancing in the Streets” during Motown night on “American Idol.”

While other singers on the show are still awkwardly adjusting to “working” the stage via strange-hula moves and ill-placed stomps, Adedapo is setting the bar high – with a high kick.

During her performance, she brought out African drums and broke it down with an Afri-centric dance.

When watching, a bit dazed, you might first question: is this really going down in the middle of “American Idol” – the apple-pie-loving home of Carrie Underwood and Clay Aiken? It was a little wild when that Taylor dude played the harmonica – but this, this is something straight out of The Burning Man Festival, or The Lion King on Broadway. Which is why you can’t help but wonder where this mesmerizing dynamite came from.

Adedapo comes to the Idol screen by way of Nigeria, Chicago, and Milwaukee.

She is a Nigerian-American, born in Maywood, Illinois, who is packing more than a couple secret weapons. When Adedapo was 10, she moved to Milwaukee with her family - which includes weapon number one: her jazz singer-mother, Adekola.

Naima majored in dance at the University of Wisconsin, and is a dancer with Ko-Thi, an Afri-centric dance company. Weapon two and three, down. She also leads her own reggae band called the “R.A.S. movement” and bullseye: she was one of the nationwide finalists for P.Diddy’s reality T.V. show “Making the Band.”

Basically, Adedapo knows how to perform as a professional (she’s had a ton of experience) and we hope we’ll get to see a lot more.

In case you missed it, check out Adedapo’s “Dancing in the Streets.”