Grammy Award-winning Jamaican music producer, songwriter and now recording artiste IzyBeats is renowned for his work with international artistes Koffee, Jorja Smith, Burna Boy, Masego, and Alicia Keys.
His infectious “Yo Izy, Are You Kidding Me?
He sings that he could “talk himself into sacred places”, and in fact, this silver-tongued devil of a musician, who goes by the name Masego, did just that with the collaboration with dancehall pop princess Shenseea, spitting lyrics as smoothly as he played the saxophone.
He is part of the dynamic collective of musicians, who, though even having migrated in their childhood, still manage to connect with their ancestries, which, in his interview, Masego explained has always been a root cause for his experimentation with the reggae and dancehall genres.
“I’m always making music. I’m in tune with musicians and get along easily with them because we share a certain bond through the music, and in my recent visit, I got to interact with live musicians in Kingston and Spanish Town. Across the world, that’s my community. It’s as simple as that. There are also outliers in Jamaica, (so) I felt at home with that, and very welcomed even though my patois isn’t real fly or anything