Emmanuel SaliM Phiri was born on the 19th of August 1994 at Tshabalala Clinic,Bulawayo,Zimbabwe. Born and raised from a christian family,he is a Catholic in Religion.
He went to Maphisa Primary School from(2001-2007) and did Traditional dancing, this is when he discovered his love for “ART”. He did his “O” level at Ihlathi High
School from(2008-2012).
“idle mind is the devil’s playground”, so he thought of doing something to keep him occupied,thus, he opened a Recording Label called “RUT” (Real Unexposed Talent).
It wasn’t something massive but this is were many Sizindian artists and groups emerged, the likes of IZIKHALI,RASTINGS,SCATTAH,DELAHAZE to name but a few.Driven by
the passion to do music, the young Producer/Artist began his music career back then in the year 2009, first as a music producer, he Lately developed his music talent
to adopt rapping skills(that was during the year 2013), thus how we now know Dj $aliM as a prominent producer and a skillfull rapper.lnspired by WizKid,Burnaboy,Oskido & YoungMoney “..l want to be better than them though…” he said laughing.
“ ..2014,l was disappointed when Oskido turned down my proposal for a feature,guess he had better things to do by then…” the artist said,however, that didn’t destroy his Ambition to pursue his dreams of becoming a better known artist-who does good music.During that same year, he met the C-four Crew ( Alpha, KoKo & Mos'H ) and they jointly did a track “Woz'Bloma Nathi” which went viral over the internet,also getting a fair number of airplays on local radio stations.$aliM the Dj made a 7 track Hip-hop Mixtape titled the “PaperAppetite” featuring Bulawayo’s finest rappers,the likes of, Tawaz_da_Alpha(now known as Alpha),Majestic_Da_Automatic, M-one to mention but a few.
Dj $aliM is not only the future of the Hip-Hop/Rap Genre.The producer/Artist has also emerged as a threat in the House/Gqom Genre, being the founder and leading percussionist in the group “IZIKHALI ZOMSAKAZO”, a group that has produced a number of fair house/gqom tracks which have gone viral on social networks, not forgetting airplays too. So far, he has produced 3 House Albums namely “Tribal not for Tribalism”, “ArenaArena” & “Payday” as “IZIKHALI ZOMSAKAZO” under “RUT” Recording Label,hence, in the latter album, we see him co-producing some of the tracks with KoKo at Excellence Music.
Dj $alim and KoKo co-productions have been seen and noted as an earth moving experience as the 2 artists developed their genre titled “Siztunes” a Kwaito/IkasiRap sub-genre, evidenced by the “Orthodox Album” which they co-worked on. “I’ve then started working with KoKo at Excellence Music, its a fun experience because we are bound together like family..” the artist said.
Dj $aliM featured & co-produced some of the tracks on KoKo’s trending-the “Dark Thoughts” Album. He will be also co-producing Dweezy Bwoi Wonder’s “Best on BestEP”, Lorbee J’s “MovementEP”, Frixx the “New Moon EP”. Last but not the least, he is set to release a new project-the “LoveEP”.