Introducing TrapHouseJazz.
Micah Davis (born June 8, 1993), known professionally as Masego, is a Jamaican-born American musician. His collaborative record with FKJ “Tadow” has amassed over 158 million views on YouTube. He is also known for his song “Lavish Lullaby” on the series Open Mic from the Genius YouTube channel.
Micah Davis was born to a Jamaican father and an African-American mother. His father was in the U.S Air Force and his mother was an entrepreneur. Both his mother and father were also pastors and he was raised in a non-denominational Christian home. The military travels eventually led his family to Virginia. Here, Davis was shaped into the musician he is today. Davis used to beat on books at a young age, which eventually led to the drums becoming the first instrument he learned without formal lessons. Davis has spoken about learning piano, sax and various drum machines in order to impress his crush back in his years in school. It was in high school when Davis adopted the name Masego after finding out his family had roots in South Africa. He did his senior project on South African culture and came across the name “Masego” and its meaning “blessings” in Setswana. This felt to Davis like a proper stage name due to his nickname back in church being “Blessing”. After a talent competition and a few records with the name used as the tag, Masego was born. Davis attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia before leaving to focus solely on his musical career.
Drawing from his upbringing of both his parents being pastors, Davis stated that church allowed him a place to learn music from talented musicians. Davis also cited John P. Kee , Andre 3000 and Cab Calloway as influences. Davis grew up in a room with over 200 vinyl records on the walls while simultaneously having friends giving him hard hitting drums and trap music influences.
He refers to his own musical style as “TrapHouseJazz”