He built up a reputation at open mic nights. He did a decade's worth of growing up in a matter of months. He picked up piano and saxophone too.Ĭollege was where Masego blossomed. “YouTube taught me everything I know,” he says. “We weren't allowed to listen to hip-hop at all.” When he was eight, he was blown away by a church drummer and taught himself. He first encountered music in church and his upbringing was strict.
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Both are pastors and he lived what he calls a sheltered life, eventually settling in Virginia for Middle School. Masego lived a nomadic youth, moving around with his Jamaican-American father who was in the air force, and his Georgia-born mother. “He's allowed me to write in a legendary way: like Michael Jackson or old school Stevie.
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One of his main collaborators is producer Sounwave of the TDE family. “It's the many emotions of Masego,” he smiles. Elsewhere he’s influenced by trap, Caribbean styles, electric piano funk, and more somber textures. The title track paints him as a jazzy heartthrob, a young sax-playing D'Angelo. And Lady Lady is a showcase of his many sides: funny and flirty, wide-eyed and coming-of-age, mysterious and moody. He towers over 6ft tall with a gold saxophone pendant around his neck, robed in impeccable threads and with tattoos that spell J-A-Z-Z across his knuckles. 2018 is proving to be Masego’s break-out year as he makes his official full-length album debut Lady Lady, the culmination of years of hard work, crossing the globe multiple times, and refining his distinctive craft.
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He cites the 1930s Harlem big band leader and singer Cab Calloway as a guiding spirit, was mentored by DJ Jazzy Jeff, and puts an unabashedly sultry-smooth spin on the R&B, hip hop and dance music that he and his contemporaries like Chance The Rapper, SZA, Goldlink and Smino are making. Masego is a saxophone player, a singer, a rapper, a comedian, a DJ - a singular talent and surprising presence in the musical fabric right now.