{"id":463269,"date":"2011-07-18T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/18\/nigeria-the-diamonds-turn-music-producers\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T12:41:09","slug":"nigeria-the-diamonds-turn-music-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/18\/nigeria-the-diamonds-turn-music-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: The Diamonds Turn Music Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23.4190641248\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charles Mgbolu<\/p>\n<p>16 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Following a very successful album that scored several hits, The Diamonds; winners of 2008 keenly contested music talent hunt reality television show Star Quests who are still very much in the corridors of music stepped up to a new level as the group exclusively revealed to Showtime that they&#8217;ve ventured into music production business.<\/p>\n<p>According to a member of the group who acts as band leader, a state of the art music production system has already been put together by them to be used in music production and editing business.<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8220;We have a studio in our rented apartment, two major studios infact where we do music productions&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Diamonds who were on the just concluded star trek that toured ten states of the country where they performed in four cities said &#8220;We are dropping a new album as we just signed a new deal with List entertainment run by Sunny Are.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a new video, titled Jolly and hopefully the album should drop before December this year. There will be collaborations but we won&#8217;t give details now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group had moved on after reportedly losing the only female member of the group who left for undisclosed reasons.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107181318.html\" title=\"Nigeria: The Diamonds Turn Music Producers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: The Diamonds Turn Music Producers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Charles Mgbolu 16 July 2011 Following a very successful album that scored several hits, The Diamonds; winners of 2008 keenly contested music talent hunt reality television show Star Quests who are still very much in the corridors of music stepped up to a new level as the group exclusively revealed to Showtime that they&#8217;ve ventured into music production business. According to a member of the group who acts as band leader, a state of the art music production system has already been put together by them to be used in music production and editing business. He said &#8220;We have a studio in our rented apartment, two major studios infact where we do music productions&#8221; The Diamonds who were on the just concluded star trek that toured ten states of the country where they performed in four cities said &#8220;We are dropping a new album as we just signed a new deal with List entertainment run by Sunny Are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: The Diamonds Turn Music Producers - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/18\/nigeria-the-diamonds-turn-music-producers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: The Diamonds Turn Music Producers - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Charles Mgbolu 16 July 2011 Following a very successful album that scored several hits, The Diamonds; winners of 2008 keenly contested music talent hunt reality television show Star Quests who are still very much in the corridors of music stepped up to a new level as the group exclusively revealed to Showtime that they&#039;ve ventured into music production business. 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