Diamanté Blackmon was born in guatemala and moved to the united states at ten years old. he recorded as carnage before launching gordo in 2021 as a house alias.

taraka is his own party brand and it has run in san francisco, miami, tulum, mykonos, amsterdam, new york, bulgaria and detroit, built around long sets and lineups he picks himself. the name went on a record too, TARAKA, out through ultra on 17 september 2021.

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gordo to grammy.com, 2 october 2024

the production work that made the wider industry look up was on drake's Honestly, Nevermind in 2022, where he holds six credits. billboard, reporting on its own chart, placed him at number one on the hot 100 producers list dated 2 july 2022 on the back of it, and dj mag's own top 100 djs poll put him twenty fifth that same year.

his debut album DIAMANTE arrived on 26 july 2024 through ultra, sixteen tracks with drake, t-pain, maluma, leon bridges, fuerza regida and keinemusik's Rampa and &ME spread across it. the single Sideways with drake came out the same day and is the one that reaches furthest. the latin side of the catalogue runs deeper than that record alone, through Hombres y Mujeres with feid on 18 november 2022 and Don Juan on sony music latin in august 2023.

the newest one is ENERGY with WhoMadeWho, out on maison arts on 17 july 2026 and the first studio track the two acts have finished together.

pacha ibiza handed taraka a run of tuesdays across summer 2026, starting 25 august and carrying through 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 september, the last of those billed as the closing. the rest of the calendar has koko in london on 11 september 2026, opium in barcelona on 23 september 2026 and piknic électronik in montreal on 2 october 2026.