Music Brings strangers, Davido, Diamond Platnumz Together

Uzo Chikere

Music art has a way of bringing strangers together to work on a project. Most times, the product comes out perfect because these stranger are familiar in with the business. That is the case with Bottom of Form

Davido who has revealed that he had no knowledge of the existence of Tanzanian singer, Diamond Platnumz before they worked together.

The HKN star and Diamond Platnumz worked on a collaboration single, ‘Number one’, in 2014, which rose to become a smash hit single.

The song bears the credit of introducing Diamond into the West African music scene, and Davido has shed light on how they met.

Explaining what informed his choice the artiste with whom to collaborate while he was in Kenya to perform at the 5th AfroBeatz Festival ,Davido said: “Honestly to me, I like good music, if the song is good, I don’t really focus on looking down on the artiste, whether big or small.

“When I did a song with Diamond I didn’t know who he was, that was the first time I heard of him, but I heard the song, I liked the song, I did it, and it turned out to be real good.”

Davido and Diamond’s relationship which bordered on friendship, reportedly hit the rocks after their social media beef concerning the 2014 Big Brother Africa winner saga.

Diamond has since gone on to take advantage of his fame, with numerous visits to Nigeria, and collaborations with Nigerian artistes.

His latest high profile collaboration was scored with Iyanya, where he featured on a single titled ‘Nakupenda’. The video for the single has been shot and will be released in the coming weeks.