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🔔Subscribe and click the bell icon to be notified of all videos! 🔔 SPOTIFY: Follow Wouter Kellerman: • Instagram - • Facebook - • YouTube -/@wkellerman • TikTok - • Twitter - • Website - WK Bookings - Email: tholsipillay@ Follow Diamond Platnumz: Instagram: Facebook: Twitter: 'Pounds and Dollars' is the pan-African collaboration between 2x GRAMMY® Award-winning flautist Wouter Kellerman, and East African superstar Diamond Platinumz. Diamond’s smooth vocals and Wouter’s expressive flute exemplify the music of South and East Africa - a reminder that music is truly the universal language of love and unity, helping to bring social cohesion and a message of togetherness to the African subcontinent. Artists: Wouter Kellerman, Diamond Platnumz Composed by: Nasibu Abdul Juma (Diamond Platnumz) & Nwabueze Promise Chibuike (Pryme) Produced by: Emmanuel Godwin Ifeanyi (Shugavybz) Additional Production: Wessel van Rensburg, JB Arthur, Mauritz Lotz Lead Vocal: Diamond Platnumz Flutes: Wouter Kellerman Programming: Emmanuel Godwin Ifeanyi (Shugavybz) Lead Vocals recorded by Siraj Khamees in Tanzania Flutes recorded by Wouter Kellerman at Kellerman Music Studios in Johannesburg Mixed and mastered by Siraj Khamees in Tanzania Additional Engineering by Bill Hare at Bill Hare Productions, Milpitas, California, USA ABOUT WOUTER KELLERMAN: Globe-trotting flautist and composer Wouter Kellerman received a GRAMMY® Award for his album Winds of Samsara, also reaching #1 on the US Billboard Charts and peaking at #1 on the Zone Music Reporter Top 100 International Radio Airplay Chart. His following album Love Language was also nominated for a GRAMMY® for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album and debuted at #1 on the Billboard World Music charts in its first week. Wouter’s 2021 album Pangaea was nominated in the Best New Age album category at the 64th GRAMMY® Awards. He received his 2nd GRAMMY® win for his song Bayethe with Nomcebo Zikode and Zakes Bantwini in the Best Global Music Performance category. Over the course of nine albums, Kellerman has steadfastly built on the rigorous classical training of his youth to create a signature sound that’s earned him both critical praise and multiple awards. He has won a total of eight SAMA's (South African Music Award, the equivalent to the American GRAMMY®), reinforcing his status as one of South Africa’s foremost musicians. Wouter has performed all over the world in places like Berlin, Shanghai, Delhi and Sydney, including three sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2010 he performed at the FIFA Soccer World Cup Closing Ceremony to a global audience of 700-million viewers. A 2016 highlight was a performance in Johannesburg for the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and a television audience of more than 200 million. Passionate about teaching and empowering young people, Kellerman has sponsored the living costs for ten children in the SOS Children’s Village in Ennerdale, South Africa for the past 18 years; he has also financed the building of a house in the SOS Children’s Village in Rustenburg, South Africa. For his continued efforts in helping to give these children better lives, Kellerman was nominated by the SOS Children’s Villages for the Inyathelo Special Recognition Award for Philanthropy. ABOUT DIAMOND PLATNUZ: Diamond Platnumz is a Tanzanian bongo Flava recording artist, actor, dancer, philanthropist, and businessman from raised in a less-privileged neighbourhood of Tandale, Dar es Salaam. He is the founder and CEO of WCB Wasafi Record Label, a film production company, Zoom Extra. He also owns and manages TV & a Radio Station called Wasafi TV & Wasafi FM. Diamond has won numerous awards at Channel O, MTV Awards, Sound City, Kilimanjaro Music Awards, Headies, Afrima, Afrimma, Kora, AEA, the HiPipo Music Awards and many more and has been nominated three times for the BET awards in the past. Diamond Platnumz released his debut album (Kamwambie) in 2010, with a total of 12 songs. He then released his second album (Lala Salama) in 2012, which had 10 songs. On 14 March 2018, Diamond Platnumz released his third album (A Boy From Tandale) which contains a total of 18 songs. Diamond is considered by music pundits and the media as one of the most influential and successful music stars in East and Central African music history and has performed in packed stadiums across Africa and filled music venues in Europe, Asia, and America. He is the highest-selling Tanzanian artist and among the artists earning the highest income in the African Great Lakes region's music industry.
