DeeMusiq Press Kit
Brand bio — 50 words
DeeMusiq is South Africa’s home-grown music platform. Listeners stream and download the sound of the continent — from Amapiano to Maskandi — while artists publish on their own accounts, keep ownership of their work, set their own prices and get paid fairly. Free on Android, Linux, Windows and macOS. It’s a drop day.
Brand bio — 200 words
DeeMusiq is Africa’s home-grown music platform, built in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. For too long, African artists have been squeezed from both sides: piracy sites that leak music before release day and pay nothing, and faraway platforms that take the lion’s share of every stream. DeeMusiq flips that model. Artists publish on their own accounts, keep their masters and their rights, set what their work is worth, and draw their royalties when they choose. Listeners get a fast, light app that streams and downloads the freshest African drops — from Amapiano to Maskandi, Afrobeats to Gqom — built to run smoothly on everyday devices and everyday connections, offline by default. DeeMusiq is more than a player: it is a formal platform for positive cultural exchange, with a goal of creating 100+ jobs across the arts and IT sectors and committing 2% of profit to community (CSI) initiatives. The app is free on Android, Linux, Windows and macOS, and is built on open-source software (BSD-4-Clause). The current release is v1.1.0. DeeMusiq is a venture of The Dembe Group. The tagline says it all: It’s a drop day.
Fact sheet
| Product | DeeMusiq — music streaming & download app |
|---|---|
| Tagline | “It’s a drop day.” |
| Platforms | Android (APK), Linux (.deb / AppImage), Windows (.exe), macOS (.dmg) |
| Version | 1.1.0 (build 47) |
| Price | Free |
| Licence | App: open source, BSD-4-Clause. Brand & website assets: proprietary. |
| Based in | KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa — a venture of The Dembe Group |
| Downloads | deemusiq.co.za/#download (Android, Windows, Linux, macOS) |
| Press contact | deemusiq@protonmail.com · +27 73 725 3454 (Mon–Sat, 08:00–18:00 SAST) |
Logos & artwork
Right-click / save any asset below. Please don’t recolour, stretch or crop the logo; clear space and full brand guidelines are available on request.
Covering DeeMusiq?
We’re happy to arrange interviews with the founding team, walkthroughs of the artist payout model, or early review builds. Pitch templates and a plain-text bio for copy-paste live in this same folder: brand-bio.md, pitch-email-template.md.