I came from a slum area called Tandale. Even my family never expected that I would get to where I am right now – Diamond platnumz

I came from a slum area called Tandale. Even my family never expected that I would get to where I am right now – Diamond platnumz

Penetrating the market and the game were very hard. I was coming up with ways I could get signed. My mom gave me a gold ring, and I had to sell that to get into the studio to pay for the first session. After recording my first song, I didn’t have enough experience. The song wasn’t that good, but it led me to my first manager, who paid for my first album. During the recording of the first album, the guy got into some finance problems. I started to hustle. It took me a couple of years, but in 2009, that’s when I had my first hit. It introduced me to the music industry here in Tanzania.

Then in 2014 I used nearly all my savings to make a remix of my song “Number One ” with Davido which was a huge success to my career though it wasn’t easy cause I took my team to Lagos and I had to pay for everything but it changed my life.

Diamond platnumz  has so much awards that he recently said he doesn’t need home base awards anymore,that it should be given to the up coming musicians in Tanzania so as to encourage them.