Exclusive: Backstage with Diamond Platnumz

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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

03:06From the man himself diamond Platinum's only exclusives happening here on DWD 77% stay tuned

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