Dontom was born Dontom Emmanuel Etuk to the family of mr Etuk Tom Udoadiah on the 23rd October 1984.DONTOM who hail from Onna in akwa ibom state nigeria attainded his primary education at QIC primary school usong inyang eket, eket. Then proceeded to high school at owoahiafor comprehensive high school aba. abia state. Dontom read mass communication at the now Cross River University Of Technology,Calabar, before moving to the institute of management and technology IMT Enugu where he aquired the higher national diploma (HND).
During his college days Dontom joined a gospel group called The BLESSERS which became very famous around 2002/2003. He then went solo in 2005 as an R’n’B/GOSPEL singer. Dontom became very popular around 2005/2006 in different campuses in enugu as a performer, singing mostly rkelly’s gospel songs in campuses and church concert, He then decided to do music professionally, in 2007, during his national youth service corp, He recorded and release his fisrt single, titled ONE DAY, ONE DAY became a popular hit in akure where he was serving.
After his service year in 2008, Dontom returned to Enugu and got a job with a south east based advertising agency known as saphia advertising..Then in the late 2008 he resigned from the job and recorded a new single titled putuputu nofe a hiplife with an ibo chorus. The song putuputu nofe which is the boiling sound of an African soup acquired lots of acceptance but didn’t spread nationwide then due to lack of promotion. In 2009 Dontom singned an album contacts with 3;16 entertainment who recorded and dropped the putuputu album in October of the same year.. the album became a huge success with hit singles putuputu, my wifey, and don’t walk away. Then in july 2010 dontom signed a contract with snowmanac international, who now reloaded the album and added some new tracks like suwannu putuputu (putuputu swagger). the song putuputu became a massive hit nationwide, it was then followed by ‘my wifey’ which hit the international market drawing him to a lot of shows and concerts within and outside Nigeria.
Dontom is the biggest nigerian musician in both central africa and europe,he has payed in most countries in africa like Gabon Cameroan Ghana equatorial gunea ivory coast and to mention but a few, in europe Dontom has tour paris starsburg and major cities of france swiss belgium germany spain austriar and to mention but a few.he is currently working on the release of his international album under his own label
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