{"id":52152,"date":"2024-12-08T13:58:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T13:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/the-ben-upbeat-over-concert-featuring-diamond-platnumz\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T13:58:11","slug":"the-ben-upbeat-over-concert-featuring-diamond-platnumz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/the-ben-upbeat-over-concert-featuring-diamond-platnumz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ben upbeat over concert featuring Diamond Platnumz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The artist teased the concert on social media, revealing that it will be called \u201cThe New Year Groove,\u201d and will mark the launch of his new album while ringing in the new year with his fans.<\/p>\n<p>The concert will take place at the BK Arena on January 1, 2025. While he has not revealed the other artists performing at the event, sources close to The Ben told IGIHE that the concert will feature Rwandan artists, particularly those who have collaborated with him on music.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there is speculation that Diamond Platnumz, with whom The Ben has collaborated on the song \u201cWhy,\u201d may also perform. The two artists have had prior conversations about the possibility of Diamond joining the event, as nothing has changed regarding their plans.<\/p>\n<p>The Ben and Diamond last shared the stage last year during the Trace Awards and Festival in Kigali at the BK Arena, where they performed their collaboration.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-78263 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/the_ben_agiye_kumurika_album_ye_nshya-98a9b.jpg\" alt=\"The concert will take place at the BK Arena on January 1, 2025.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The Ben\u2019s new album will be his third, following his debut album &#8220;Amahirwe ya nyuma&#8221; released in 2009 and &#8220;Ko nahindutse&#8221; launched in 2016 in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The Ben is a household name in Rwandan music, with many hits to his name since he began his music career in 2009, up to his recent releases. His last performance at BK Arena was in 2022 for the \u201cRwanda Rebirth Celebration Concert,\u201d which followed his 2019 performance at the East African Party event.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-78262 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/the_ben_yateguye_igitaramo_gishobora_kuririmbamo_diamond_baherukaga_guhurira_muri_trace_awards_and_festival-7a4b1.jpg\" alt=\"There are rumors that he might invite Tanzanian Artist Diamond Platnumz to perform.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ben has announced that he will be holding a concert to welcome people into 2025, where he will also unveil his third album. There are rumors that he might invite Tanzanian Artist Diamond Platnumz to perform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000078261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000078261,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-118.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-118.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-118.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-118.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-118.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-118.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000078261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52152"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52152"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}