
He has been concerned in music since 1995 however it wasn’t till 2004 that his name began to be spoken in nearly reverent terms. Retrieved 2 February 2018.John Simon, higher by his name ‘Joh Makini’ comes from Arusha, a town with an extremely credible “hard core” nascent Bantoid language Hip Hop scene.
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He officially began his career in music as an assistant music producer at Kama Kawa records in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. After lot of complication in life he met Kid who paved way for his success. He released "Baby" by had little market success and airplay then its when he turned to production.
Mesen dropped out of school to pursue his music career. Mesen wrote many songs including gospels and RNB this made him the most popular X members member. They had a short-lived group named X members by Mesen himself. At the age of 17 Mesen attended Mukidoma Secondary school where he met new friends and roommates Barnabas Shegella aka Bonke, Kumbuka Mwakibinga, Frank Muya aka Zpower but next year they were joined by Martin Thadeus aka Konsciouz who became a new member. Mesen Selekta places his interests in music at the age of 14 when his father bought him a piano and a found a piano teacher.