Melita Ramokgosi Opens Up About Being A Backup Dancer For Tyla & Other Artists. Ramokgosi has been a dancer for 13 years and although she’s danced alongside big names in the industry, she has been yearning for her big break.Ramokgosi’s impressive résumé also includes doing backup dancing for Chris Brown, Tyla, Moonchild Sanelly, Sho Madjozi, Mafikizolo and Boom Shaka.
“I used to go to places to get my face and name known because professional dancers are not taken seriously in SA, breaking through is one of the hardest things,” she told Sowetan.
“That video was taken two weeks ago in KwaMashu, Durban. We decided to chill at a restaurant a day after a gig. I intended to have fun, nothing more. Since the venue we were at was empty and boring, we decided to have fun as the DJ played music,” Ramokgosi said.
“I saw people taking videos of me dancing but because it’s the norm, I didn’t think too much of it, I kept on dancing. Little did I know that this video would bring me so much attention.”
“As dancers, we normally get gigs through the artists we’re working for and not necessarily on our own. It’s also hard to make money in this industry because most of us don’t have a huge following on social media, which results in us not being booked enough. However, I want to be the first professional dancer to change that narrative.”
According to Sowetan Mag, Ramokgosi has been dancing alongside the Limpopo dance queen for the past two years. She is a versatile dancer, who possesses hip-hop, bacardi, amapiano and gqom moves.“Makhadzi actually sent me a direct message on social media. She first saw me dancing for Moonchild when she was opening for the UK band group, Gorillaz, in Europe. She told me how impressed she was by my dancing and asked that I come and work with her,” she added.
