Babu Tale

Hamisi Shaban Taletale, also known as Babu Tale, is a Tanzanian talent manager and politician presently serving as the Chama Cha Mapinduzi's Member of Parliament for Morogoro South constituency since November 2020. He is the co-founder of the WCB Wasafi music label.

Career

Tale represents artists including Diamond Platnumz, Madee, Rayvanny, Mbosso, Rich Mavoko, and Dogo Janja. Through Rayvanny, Tale was the first manager to bring BET Award 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 win in 2015.
In 2019, he was nominated at the Africa Entertainment Awards USA alongside other African talent managers, including Joel Vicent Joseph, Seven Mosha, Sunday Are, Asa Asika, Ubi Franklin, Prince Costinyo, Nanayaw Ofori, Keen Mushapaidze, and Tlee Moiloa, and won the award in his category.
In 2017 he controversially endorsed an independent candidate for Embakasi seat.
In 2018 he was arrested and taken to Tanzania court of law for debts.