Masego - Loose Thoughts (2016)

Songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist Masego was born Micah Davis in Kingston, Jamaica in 1993. He grew up in Newport News, Virginia with a ravenous appetite for music, teaching himself how to play cello, drums, piano, and guitar, but specializing in saxophone. He released songs online while finding his style, posting videos of live looping and on-the-spot beatmaking as well as tracks where he improvised saxophone over other artist's beats. His 2016 release, The Pink Polo EP, was Masego's most focused and organized outing to date and featured the single "Girls That Dance." In 2017, he released "Tadow," a collaborative single with French artist FKJ. The accompanying video for the song went viral, showing the two musicians impressively live-looping all the track's instruments in the studio. ~ Fred Thomas