Exclusive: Backstage with Diamond Platnumz
We hang out with Tanzanian superstar Diamond Platnumz at the Afro Nation music festival in Portugal. He talks to us about his love for music, fans and his ability to juggle business and art.
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00:00Hey 77 percenters, we are back again still at the Afro nation
00:042024 here in Portimao Portugal
00:07Guess who we have right now
00:09The man himself has just brought the house down. It was just vibes. Everybody was screaming as he performed on stage
00:17It's none other than
00:19Diamond Platinum's diamond. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. That was an amazing performance there
00:25I appreciate how do you feel performing in the Afro nation?
00:28You know the good thing about four nations just is that it brings every nation's in here
00:36Everybody on the continent and all the countries in here
00:39So if it's so good for you to perform in front of all the countries
00:45Yeah, most of the time we're traveling to different countries
00:49So when you have everybody one place
00:52It's a good. Yeah, you need to have a heat
00:56Of course
00:58Congratulations on I mean your achiever you achieved a remarkable
01:04Stream over like 400 million streaming on the bloomberg. Congratulations. How do you feel?
01:10Because there's a blessing and I want to give this to my fans because the other one will be streaming those songs
01:17And all that and I love them and I'm thanking them and I've got more good things for them
01:22You're not just a musician you're also a businessman you on the wassafi record label, how do you be?
01:29Yeah, how do you manage to juggle? I mean that between being an artist you're here in Afro nation
01:35I know you have a long list of performances coming up
01:39Yeah, I can say like, you know, of course we do music but to me I
01:45Always wanted to use my music influence in a very positive way
01:50So that I can invest and from the talent that God get me
01:54To use it in a nice way so that I can invest in different things and those things can be one of the
02:04Tools to support or empower the youth
02:08So after I started being music musician professionally, I started investing into different
02:16Businesses
02:18And then employ different youth, you know, when we look at you
02:22We read about you following your journey. Your first hit was to come ones. Oh, I don't know if I've said that, right?
02:33Yes, it wasn't really a hit but you didn't give up time or did you give up and there you are today
02:39I mean you are an icon when it comes to music
02:42What advice can you give to the African youth every time remember that it always looks impossible until it's done
02:50Sometimes you may have a vision that your team or your people will never understand. You have to accept it
02:55don't expect everybody to understand to love to like to follow or to be happy with wherever that you
03:04Feeling like oh you want to do there. You have it
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