19 Facts About Yemi AD

Yemi AD Akinyemi Dele was born in 1981 in Communist Czechoslovakia and grew up in Liberec.

Yemi AD was raised by Nigerian father who had previously studied at the University of Economics in Prague, and by Czech mother.

Yemi AD identifies as a queer man and advocates for the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights worldwide.

Yemi AD has shared his insights in a live interview with American CNN and has been prominently featured on the covers of leading Czech magazines, including Forbes and Muzi v Cesku.

At the age of sixteen, Yemi AD moved to Prague for education and work.

In 1999, Yemi AD returned to Prague, Czech Republic, where he founded JAD Dance Company, a Czech and international team of dancers and choreographers.

In 2010, Yemi AD founded the globally award-winning production company, JAD Productions, whose portfolio includes clients such as Google, Apple, Coca-Cola, T-Mobile, adidas Originals and Mercedes Benz.

The piece was well received and Kanye West commissioned Yemi AD to create choreography for West's Runaway performance in Los Angeles for VMA's 2010 and for Saturday Night Life performance of "Power" and "Runaway".

The collaboration continued with Yemi AD creating choreography for other songs of the "Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" album for Kanye West's global tour.

West tweeted about Yemi AD, who was quoted in GQ Magazine regarding Kanye West.

Yemi AD performed and led choreographies of six series of the most popular TV show on TV Nova - Tvoje tvar ma znamy hlas.

Yemi AD was the first Czech correspondent for MTV Europe and became the host of a popular Czech TV show, ESO.

In 2014, Yemi AD was chosen by the readers of MF Dnes among the 24 most influential personalities in the Czech Republic.

Since 2017, Yemi AD is one of the first Czech ambassadors of sustainable development goals and one of the three Goodwill Ambassadors for the Ministry of foreign affairs in the Czech Republic.

In February 2019, American TV station CBS began to broadcast a new talent show The World's Best and Yemi AD was chosen to be among 50 professional judges from all around the world.

In 2019, Yemi AD starred in Apple's Life on iPad Pro worldwide advertising commercial campaign.

Yemi AD has delivered interactive seminars about the future of intergenerational creativity as a keynote at TEDx and the Czech Singularity University Summit.

Yemi AD is the ambassador of Sustainable Development Goals under the UN for the Czech Republic and was appointed as Czech Goodwill Ambassador by the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2019.

In 2021, Yemi AD submitted an application for the dearMoon mission, a privately funded mission to orbit the moon backed by Yusaku Maezawa.