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Things You Didn’t Know About Diamond Platnumz

#1980Diamond Platnumz

,one of Africa Leading and most Influential Artist. The Bongo Flava recording artist is the most loved and bankable Tanzanian artist at the moment

Diamond Platnumz, was born on 2rd October 1989 at Amana Hospital in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania then grew up in the western part of Tandale, living with his mother at his grandmother house.

#Name

Diamond Platnumz, popularly known as his stage name, his real name is Nasibu Abdul Juma.

#Son

Diamond Platnumz grew up as the only child due by his single mother due to unresolved conflicts between his parents.

#Education

Diamond Platnumz a.k.a Nasibu in 1995, attended Chakula Bora Nursery before joining Tandale Magharibi Primary School following year, 1996 and completed in 2002.

#Musician

Diamond Platnumz started showing his interest music while in standard five where he initially imitated local and international artists and sang their songs on various occasions, with his supportive mother buying him albums from different artist and helping him out to write lyrics and taking him for talent shows in hope that his son will be given a platform to sing and thanks to the grace of God, he has risen and has been able to recorded over 130 songs in his music career so far.

#Fashionista

Diamond Platnumz is also known for his great sense and style of fashion.

#Networth

Diamond Platnumz, is believed to be the one of East Africa’s highest earning and paid artist based on being among the artists earning the highest income in in the African Great Lakes region’s music industry, highest selling artist of ringtones by mobile phone companies, concert performance, tours and endorsements from World’s largest company like Coca cola and not to forget the many awards he has won. In a nutshell, the humble Nasibu, who back then with both his mother and grandmother were forced to share a single room and rent out the remaining two rooms just to make ends meet and pay the bills, is now earning millions from his music making him both a Multi-Millionaire and a Billionaire at his home Tanzania, with a netwoth of over one million dollars.

For performances in Tanzania, Diamond charges a small fee of $4,000 per show but when he is outside his home country he won’t take anything less than $25,000 per show, with the best being when he made $100,000 for a performance in Kigali Rwanda. For Collabo, Diamond charges $3,000 per audio recordingand $6,000 for a video recording.

#Religion

Diamond Platnumz aka Nasibu Juma is of Muslim Background.

#Awards

Diamond Platnumz has had a successful music picking up many awards along the way including in 2010 getting Kilimanjaro Tanzania Music Awards for Best Upcoming Artist, Kilimanjaro Tanzania Music Awardsfor Song of the Year, Kilimanjaro Tanzania Music Awards for Best R&B Song of the Year and MTV Base MAMAs Awards, Nigeria for Best Upcoming Artist .

In 2011 he scooped Nzumari Music Awards ,Kenya for Best Male Artist from Tanzania. In 2012Kilimanjaro Tanzania Music Awards for Best Male Composer ,Kilimanjaro Tanzania Music Awards for Video of the Year ,Kilimanjaro Tanzania Music Awards for Best Male Entertainer and Nzumari Music Awards, Kenya for Best Male Artist from Tanzania .

In 2013, won Kilimanjaro Tanzania Music Awards for Best Male and Kilimanjaro Tanzania Music Awards for Best Male Artist .In 2014 he has won Best Collaboration Song with “Muziki Gani” song, Best Afro Pop , Song of the year and Best Music Video with “Number One” song. Hardworking Diamond Platnumz knows truly knows to make it in Life , you need to go an extra mile of hard work, determination, persistence, passion driven and be true to yourself because your Dreams are still Valid. As for him, he once was forced toengage himself in casual works like selling second hand clothes, filling station attendant and freelancing as a photographer, just to raise to raise money for a studio session in 2007.If that’s not enough, he was both a time involved in illegal gambling and also at some point was forced to sell his mother’s gold ring secretly torecord his first studio single and to pay for his session. Since as it was his first time in the studio, the song was not an immediate hit but nevertheless, it opened doors for him and marked the beginning of his journey as a bongo flava music artist.

Through that song Nasibu met Chizo Mapene who volunteered to be his Manager supervising all his music works. The agreement was for them to do an album but unfortunately money became a problem and their working relationship came to an end without releasing that album. Dreams were shattered and royalty was tested; relationships came to an end and friends became strangers. Nasibu could not get a studio to sign him, his girlfriend left him telling him that she cannot be with someone who cannot provide for her; a dreamer who think that he will be one among the great musicians in Tanzania living the life of a Star.In 2009 Diamond met Msafiri Peter aka Papaa Misifa who agreed to provide financial support in nurturing Diamond’s talent. They recorded his first single titles “Nenda Kamwambie” which was a dedication to his girlfriend who left him when he had nothing. That was the song which opened doors for Diamond in the music industry.