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MASEGO I Masego Mungkin baru e Masego has only released
MeMiliki satu albuM dan baru an albuM and it was just
TRAP-HOUSE-JAZZ luncur di 2018 dengan judul out in 2018 titled Lady Lady.
Lady Lady. Namun, video-video-nya
Yet, his music videos on YouTube
IN AFRICAN WAY di YouTube bahkan sudah ditonton already gathered tens of millions
puluhan juta kali. of views.
Nama aslinya adalah Micah Davis, dan Masego, or Micah Davis, was
ia merupakan musisi keturunan Afrika born in Jamaica with South
Selatan yang lahir di Jamaika. Belajar African heritage. He mastered
alat musik drum sebagai instrumen drums as his first musical
pertamanya tanpa bersentuhan dengan instrument without having any
pendidikan musik formal, Davis formal education in music. He was
lalu belajar piano, saksofon, dan then learned piano, saxophone,
instrumen drum machine. and drum machine instrument.
Masego mengusung genre musik Masego presents
“TrapHouseJazz”, memadukan jazz “TrapHouseJazz” as his music
fusion, future soul, R&B, neo soul, genre, combining jazz fusion,
dan funk, serta tentu saja terinspirasi future soul, R&B, neo-soul, funk,
dari akarnya sebagai keturunan Afrika and an influence from his root
Selatan yang lantas bersentuhan as a South African descent which
dengan nama panggungnya. Nama reflects his stage name. Masego
Masego sendiri diambil dari bahasa derives from Tswana language
Setswana yang berarti “blessing”. meaning “blessings”.
Dengan penetrasinya di media His penetration in social media,
sosial, terutama channel Colors particularly Colors channel based
yang berbasis di Berlin, panggung- in Berlin, triggering a sold-out
panggungnya saat tour pun kerap sold tour. Such achievement proves
out. Catatan ini tentu saja membuat that his performance in Jakarta
penampilan Masego di panggung International BNI Java Jazz Festival
Jakarta International BNI Java Jazz 2019 is worth the wait.
Festival 2019 patut untuk disimak.

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