There’s no denying that Otile Brown and Masauti are one of the best male singers in the country and best of all, across the East African region and beyond and their vocals speak a lot for them, they need not convince you with anything else other than their music.
Masauti and Otile Brown are clearly talented, some would go the extra mile to say that they are even gifted in the art of music because their vocals are distinctly unique in a nice, alluring way.
What most of their fans don’t know is that these great artistes of our generation have similarities that can’t be overlooked in the music industry. Check the similarities below
Coastal background
Even though Otile Brown was not born in Mombasa, himself and Masauti are both from the Kenyan coast, Mombasa where they were bred and they both had their fair share of hardship and struggles growing up when they were children and overcame them to become the few talented artistes from the country who have massive fan base across the globe.
This explains their singing in Swahili in the music and their fluency in the language since the Coast region is known for speaking the Swahili language rather fluently than other parts of Kenya
They fell off with their record labels
Otile Brown was signed by Dreamland Empire for many years and to some extent, they are reportedly responsible for making him break out into the mainstream music business but due to irreconcilable differences, the two parties parted ways cordially and Otile Brown has moved forward to venture into new opportunities which as we can see, has worked for him quite well I might add.
He recently opened up his own record label called ‘Just In Love Music’ which already has two established artistes in the label, himself and his first signed artiste under the label, Jovial.
When it comes to Masauti, he has had his fair share of getting signed by the few upper echelon record labels in the country, like for instance, he was once signed by one veteran record producer in Kenya, Tedd Josiah who has worked with almost all the mentionable artistes you could ever think of.
Once Masauti’s contract with Tedd Josiah was due, he was released to go and do his stuff on his own and found a footing under J. Blessing’s record label where they worked together for some times before they parted ways altogether, they parted ways cordially I might add, there’s no bad blood between himself and his former record labels and bosses.
Currently, Masauti is signed under Dream Nation.
they both have hit numerous hit records
It’s no lie that Otile Brown broke out into the mainstream long before Masauti making him somewhat a veteran in the music industry than Masauti but that didn’t make Masauti relent in his endeavor of chasing his dreams since he has more than once stressed that he is in no competition with anyone but himself because he wants to be the best artiste he could possibly be.
That being said, Otile Brown has had successful hit records like ‘Baby Love’, ‘Penzi La Moyo’, ‘Kenyan Girl’, ‘Niseme Nawe’, ‘Hi’, ‘Samantha’, ‘Yule Mbaya’, ‘Japo Kidogo’, ‘Mapenzi Hisia’, with Masauti having hit records like ‘Mahabuba’, ‘Niwe Nawe’, ‘Gaga’, ‘Sare’, ‘Mayonli Lova’, ‘Siwezi’, ‘Nurulain’, ‘Kiboko’ , ‘Kiboko remix‘ and ‘Ipepete’ just to mention a few records he has put out recently.
other artistes and celebrities acknowledge them
You know in the music industry, fellow artistes especially established artistes acknowledging an artiste goes a long way and to some extent, they usually introduce their fans to that artiste in a way that shows support and solidarity to the artiste being introduced or getting cosigned.
More than once, Tanzanian songstress, Ray C has said that Masauti is his favorite musician today from Kenya with yet another songstress, Nandy said that she would love to work with Masauti in a record one of these days.
Aslay once gave a foresight of how Masauti is going to be the biggest artiste Kenya has ever seen and that was before Masauti dropped his hit record ‘Kiboko’ that saw him release the remix for the same with Khaligraph Jones.
Comedian, actor, radio host, and businessman Jalang’o has always believed in Masauti calling him the future of Kenyan music, period.
Otile Brown, on the other hand, has had some cosigns from fellow artistes like Khaligraph Jones, Nandy who also wanted to work with him on her project but it didn’t work for some reasons, got a cosign from Tanzanian Aslay, his ex-girlfriend, Vera Sidika said that Otile Brown is talented at least she can give him that, some music pundits have even linked Vera Sidika’s singing career to the influence of Otile Brown when they were still dating.
Also talented artiste Sanaipei Tande considered herself blessed and privileged to have worked with Otile Brown to release one of the timeless records Kenya has ever seen.
they have both worked with Khaligraph Jones
Nowadays, it’s arguable and safe to say that Khaligraph Jones is the face of Kenyan hip hop scene today and he has been holding that mantle for quite some time now and most artistes, both established and upcoming wants to work with Khaligraph Jones to at least make a name for themselves in the music industry or at least push their record to the heights that they want it to and these two artistes, Masauti and Otile Brown has gotten the opportunity to work with the ultimate self proclaim OG in the rap game.
Otile Brown got to opportunity to work with Khaligraph Jones three times on his career, the first time being on his record dubbed ‘Imaginary Love’ that was shot in Mombasa when the Swahili singing musician was coming up and the second record being ‘Nataka’ with the third record being ‘Japo Kidogo’ which he released earlier on this year.
Masauti has only worked with Khaligraph Jones once on his hit record ‘Kiboko remix’ and their musical chemistry is undeniably perfect that we are more than certain that they will get to work together in the future since the mentioned collaboration record earned Masauti his first-ever million views on YouTube which is rather a very sentimental achievement for an artiste, especially one currently breaking through in the mainstream world.
It’s not hard to pinpoint the similarities of both Masauti and Otile Brown because they are currently on top of their game today in the music industry and they both sing in Swahili, come from the same background and they both are talented and gifted vocally.
In putting it in a way that’s more elaborate in the music industry today, they are like the Willy Paul and Bahati only this time in the secular realm and the fans love it, we all know the music fans love comparisons in the music business and history can prove that.
I bet you have a preference of who is your favorite artiste between Masauti and Otile Brown, you can either decide to let the whole world know about it, or keep quiet altogether about it and keep it to yourself, the main point being that you have made a decision in regard to who is the best Swahili singing artiste between Otile Brown and Masauti today in the music industry in Kenya which I might add is popping.
