Tehn Diamond is an award-winning musician and actor, based in Harare, Zimbabwe. He plays the male lead in Zimbabwe’s first Netflix selected feature film “Cook Off”, which is his feature film debut.

As a musician, he won multiple Zim Hip Hop Awards, one Zimbabwe Music Award, and is the first Hip-Hop artist to win a National Arts Merit Award in 2012. He was also the first Zimbabwean artist to be nominated for an AFRIMMA. He has performed on the Big Brother Africa stage in 2013, was one of the 1st Zim Hip-Hop artists to be interviewed by DJ Edu on his BBC1xtra show “Destination Africa” (2013), he performed at Senegal’s biggest International Hip-Hop Festival, Festa 2H in Dakar (2015) and he has executed the country’s biggest tour to date, being the first artist to tour all 10 provinces of the country in 2017 with his “Tehn outta Ten Tour”. Add to all of that, numerous performances at the Harare International Festival of Arts (HIFA, as well as numerous performances at Zimbabwe’s Shoko Festival. In 2025, Tehn got awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Changamire Hip Hop Awards.

Next to his music and acting career, Tehn Diamond is also the founder of Nice Life Brands & Consultancy, a boutique strategic branding agency. He is a firm believer in God, and strongly believes that the purpose of our lives is to act out God’s purpose as placed in us. Through his brand Tisu Ngoda Dzacho (We Are The Diamonds) he hopes to gently remind us all that purpose matters. This oozes out through all forms of art and work he puts out in the world.

In his words: “I want to cement the name “Tehn Diamond” as an African Hip-Hop legend. I want to redefine what it means to be successful as a musician in Zimbabwe. The global trend is the age of the middle-class musician – I’d like to tap into that and earn a good living as a musician. I’d like to open up my music to an international audience and break the mold of this idea that we have, to focus only at home. I’d like to get a few more “firsts” under my belt and prove that I’m a leader. I’d like to get my respect and validate the time, life and energy I gave to the Zim Hip-Hop scene.”