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Babu Tale
Born
Havintishi Shaban Taletale

(1982-12-31) 31 December 1982 (age 41)
Dar Es Salaam
NationalityTanzanian
Other namesBabu Tale
Occupation(s)Talent manager, businessman

Hamisi Shaban Taletale also known as "Babu Tale" (Born on 31 December 1982) is a Tanzanian talent manager.[1] He is the Co-founder of WCB Wasafi Music Label. Babu Tale represents Diamond Platnumz,[2][3][4][5] Madee, Ray vanny, Mbosso, Rich Mavoko,[6] Dogo Janja among others. Through Ray Vanny, Babu Tale was the first manager to bring BET Award[7] wins to Tanzania and the first in Africa to win MTV Europe Music Awards for both "Best African Act" and "Worldwide Act" through Diamond Platnumz’s major win in 2015. He has also helped to build names for Bongo Flava now-owned music stars such as Tundaman, Mb Doggy,Keyshia, Z Anto and many others.

Personal life

Babu Tale was born and raised in Dar es salaam to parents who had eight other kids. Babu Tale's whole family was living in a two-bedroom house. Due to financial problems, Babu Tale was the only child to study and complete ordinary education because he received a scholarship after winning the UMISETA Challenge for impersonating other people such as Julius Nyerere and many others. He chose to study at Makongo Secondary School. He started doing comedy earlier but he gave up his career because of his wife, opening another opportunity for him. He was arrested and taken to Tanzania court of law for debts.[8][9][10][11][12]

Career

Babu Tale started his career by organizing shows; during this time of his career he met Madee, Tanzanian music star and a co-founder of TipTop Connection. Earlier, Babu Tale[13] tried to be an artist but he could not memorize lyrics. Due to his talent of impersonating other people, his brother helped him get a job to do radio jingles at the East Africa Radio, where he would work with Rehema Charamila popularly known as Ray C on her radio show "Music Box" at the time. When Babu Tale's sister died, Madee wrote a song "Kazi yake Mola" Ft Mandojo & Domokoya which was dedicated to Babu Tale's sister and the song became a nationwide hit. Then Babu Tale and his brother, Abdu Bonge started to take up an interest in music and that was the start of Babu Tale's career as a talent manager. He initially entered the field to impress women, but later it turned into a business.

After he started working with TipTop Connection, Babu Tale helped bring up artists such as MB Doggy, Z anto, Keyshia, Tundaman, Pingu & Desso, PNS[disambiguation needed], Kassim Mganga, Loveness Love and many more. At the time artist under his management would win Kilimanjaro Tanzania Music Awards back to back every year. Unfortunately, he later had misunderstandings with his artist and chose to work independently. He worked with Peter Msechu on his first official track "Hasira Hasala" which was a huge success. He then worked with Quick Rocka on his debut hit-track "Bullet." He was employed for 1 year by spice music in 2010[citation needed], then he later worked with Suma Lee on his biggest hit "Hakunaga" before he officially started to manage Diamond Platnumz. Their first official project was "Moyo wangu."

References

  1. ^ "Meneja Babu Tale imebidi ayaseme haya kuhusu kauli ya Diamond kupitisha video MTV BASE – Millardayo.com". Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Why Diamond's Manager is Worried About Singer's Sudden Weight Loss". Nairobi Wire. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Diamond's manager Babu Tale reveals Zari did not allow Diamond's kids to talk to him". Mzurii. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  4. ^ Oduor, Martin. "Babu Tale: Diamond was not paid a dime to perform with Davido". ghafla.com. Retrieved 24 August 2018. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |website= (help)
  5. ^ "Uganda Online – Zari not moved by the Iyena video as Babu Tale woos her". ugandaonline.net. Retrieved 24 August 2018. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |website= (help)
  6. ^ Oduor, Martin. "Babu Tale offers new insight into claims Rich Mavoko has dumped Wasafi Records". ghafla.com. Retrieved 24 August 2018. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |website= (help)
  7. ^ "Babu Tale with Rayvanny's BET trophy". Biggest Kaka. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  8. ^ "Diamond's manager Babu Tale arrested over Sh11m debt – PHOTOS – Nairobi News". Nairobi News. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  9. ^ "Diamond's manager Babu Tale reveals Zari did not allow Diamond's kids to talk to him". Mzurii. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  10. ^ "Diamond's manager, Babu Tale, arrested over a 250 million debt". Kiss FM. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  11. ^ "KSh11 million copyright case lands Diamond's manager, Babu Tale, behind bars – Hot 96". Hot 96. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  12. ^ "Diamond's manager to spend more time in remand". GhettoRadio 89.5 FM. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  13. ^ Oduor, Martin. "Diamond's manager Babu Tale rebuked for endorsing an independent candidate for Embakasi seat – Ghafla!Kenya". ghafla.com. Retrieved 24 August 2018. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |website= (help)
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