The Angolan artist Diamondog is Rapper since 1998, Journalist and Master student of Visual and Media Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Currently Living in Berlin, Germany, he has already toured in different countries and cities including Spain - Barcelona, Portugal - Porto, Braga, Poland, and performed at several shows all over Brazil including Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Salvador-Bahia, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, in the company of rappers and illustrious musicians like Afrika Bambaataa, Marcelo D2, Thaide of the Duo Thaide and DJ Hum, Tianastacia, Wilson Sidereal , Leandro Ferrari, Marku Ribas, Black Sonora , Tambolele, Dj Primo ",Creative School Olodum, Shameema - Godessa (South Africa) and many others.
With long-time rap partner Jazzrell (Brazilian), he formed the Rap-Duo "Clandestino", which means "family connected through the destination". They recorded the CD "A tribute to our nations" with the participation of singer Rena English (Brazil) and rappers such as Toaster Eddie, Kaio Estrao (U.S.A.), Kunkalopi (Cape Verde) and Cubanito (Cuba).
As a result of his malleability and musical plasticity, Diamondog was invited to be part of different musical projects in Brazil, Europe and USA such as:
"Food to Eat" - philanthropic project sponsored by Petrobras, organized by Pode Nastacia, leader of the Brazilian Rock band Tianastacia, with a recorded CD bearing the project's name.
"Arrebite" - project led by the producer Retriger, resulting in the EP "Bicuda" released under the German label Phantanoise Record. The vinyl contains 6 songs, 3 of which are Diamondog's, in the styles rap, ragga and breakbeat. After the launch in April 2007, the English magazine "XLR8R", specialized in eletronica, wrote an article about the project and made available mp3 samples of the music on in its website.
"Comprades" - project led by Ferrari, including drummer Glauco Nastacia, from Tianastacia, rappers Diamondog, Cubanito and Pow, resulting in an album with 2 Diamondog songs.
" Malucofonia" - Brazilian Hip Hop Project, for which Diamondog wrote and recorded the song "Eu quero uma Dama".
"Dj Art" - project led by Dj Merije, producer and composer of Collective Universal and Rational Inspiration. The producers belong to the project Alexander Basa - producing music and multi-player (Planet Hemp, Nacao Zunbi, Otto, Instituto and diverse others), DJ Tano - Tri-champion 2003/04/05 of the Hip Hop Djs (the biggest competition of its kind in Latin America), are also art educator (ZAfrica Brazil), Max B.O. - MC and composer (Funk As Le Gusta, Thaide, Brazilian Academy of rhyme), Renegado - MC, producer and art educator (NUC and First Manifest Step), Diamondog - MC, references: Clandestino group, (Africa Bambaata, Marcelo D2, Tianastacia, Black Sonora).
"Input-Junkies" - project run by German producers, for which Diamondog recorded together with the female rapper Shameema from South Africa. The song International Monkey Business satirises the ignorance of certain people from the West about the "third world".
Diamondog has also taken part in events such as Revolution Carnival, Pop Rock Brazil Festival alongside Marcelo D2 and Dj Primo in the presence of 25 thousand people. On 2004 he was invited by Africa Bambaataa to share the stage in Brazil during the Black Arts Festival, and in 2007 he meet’s Bambaataa in Germany - Berlin and he share the stage again with him. Beyond these events Diamondog has also take part of Electronic Festival - Brazil, FILE (International Festival of Electronic Language) - Brazil, Coca Cola Music Festival - Brazil, Bread and Butter - Spain and Karneval der Kulturen in Berlin a event that brought together more then 800 thousand people in the street. Diamondog interviews and reportage's can be found on: Real Hip Hop - one of the biggest sites of Hip Hop in Brazil, Vice - On-line Magazine from Germany, Angop, USA Today, all Africa - the source-of-record for African news and information, Radio of United Nations in New York, Radio Fm Stereo - Angola, Radio Oi FM - Brazil, Kiss FM and Funkhaus Europe - Berlin, Radio Favela-Brazil, newspaper such as: Angolense and Jornal de Angola - Angola, Taz - Berlin, Diario do Brasil, and Folha of Sao Paulo - the biggest newspaper of Sao Paulo, and TV channels such as: TV Bandeirantes, TV Globo, TV UFMG, TV Puc and TV of Latin America and, ARD1 and ZDF - Germany.
In January 2007, Diamondog was invited by director of photography, Marcelo Trotta ( City of God ) to participate fully in the trailer of the film "Close to the sun", and documentary "Beyond the coffee, oil and diamonds". This documentary was finished in April 2007, released at film festivals and recognised for best direction at the Festival of Pernambuco, as well as receiving Honourable Mention at the Awards of Human Rights in Sao Paulo.
Diamondog is also engaged politically; organising social project in schools and immigration canters, showing people that in Hip Hop they can find an alternative way of expressing themselves and changing their social conditions in difficult and violent times. In Brazil Diamondog participated in a wide range of events along this theme. During April - May 2007 he ran workshops about how to use Rap for peaceful conflict transformations, with young people from different social backgrounds in Poland and Germany. These workshops formed part of the project PeaceXchange of the NGO Weltfriedensdienst e.V. (World Peace Service).
On the begin of 2009, Diamondog was among nine musicians invited to be sponsored by the project dubbed " Volkswagen Sound Foundation" which supports the musicians logistically and also in relation to matters such as booking.
Currently, Diamondog pursues a solo career, making shows with his band formed by seven professional musicians, or simply with his DJ.
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