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Silk, Saxophones & Soul: Masego’s Fix Your Face TOUR Lands in Phoenix
Years after my dad first showed me Masego’s “Tadow” during one of our family “music video nights,” I found myself in the photo pit watching that same magic unfold in front of me. Masego brought the Fix Your Face Tour to Arizona Financial Theatre with silky vocals, wandering saxophone, layered grooves, and velvety set.
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A handful of years ago, my family had a little tradition of “music video night.” We would gather together, pull up YouTube, and take turns showing each other whatever song or artist had caught our attention that week. One night, my dad showed me Masego’s “Tadow.” I remember being completely entranced. The entire video was hypnotic, watching Masego build the song before your eyes. He was looping, layering, molding himself into the music, moving between instruments with an ease. His voice was silk. Velvety, warm, impossibly smooth. The saxophone immediately became so distinctly Masego to me. More than an instrumental accessory, it felt like another limb to the artist.
When the anticipation for the Fix Your Face Tour began building, it was a particularly full-circle feeling about knowing I would eventually be standing in a photo pit watching that same artist I first encountered through a family YouTube night. The tour arrived at Arizona Financial Theatre on bringing Masego’s newest chapter to Phoenix.
Fix Your Face, his latest album, is a deeply textured record. Across 16 tracks, Masego moves through R&B, soul, jazz, gospel-tinged arrangements, romance, grief, reflection, and the complicated machinery of being a person trying to keep moving. The lyricism has a certain intimacy to it. It doesn't feel interested in pretending everything is polished. There are bruises in these songs. Questions. Desire. Loss. The album was shaped in part by a period of profound upheaval in Masego’s life, including losing his Los Angeles home in the January 2025 wildfires, and that weight gives the record an added sense of reflection without swallowing its warmth.
The phrase Fix Your Face itself carries a little bite. A little humor. A little tenderness. The album takes that phrase and blooms it into a reminder to keep your composure, to keep moving, to find your way through whatever life has decided to throw at you. Beneath the silky production are songs that wrestle with grief, relationships, identity, and the strange pressure of trying to build a life while still figuring out what that life is supposed to look like.
He has always existed within being a musician, producer, storyteller, and one-man band. His version of R&B doesn't sit neatly inside one box. The music carries jazz sensibilities, hip-hop rhythm, soul, and a sense of play. His saxophone remains one of his signatures.
The stage at Arizona Financial Theatre reflected that intimacy. Rounded, carpeted platforms sat beneath heavy draping that framed the screen behind him, making the whole setup a luxurious little musical hideaway. The architecture left space for Masego to be the centerpiece. From the barricade, fans were spilling their adoration over to me. They talked about Masego with affection.
He opened with “Wonderwoman,” slipping into “Limerence” and “Heaven.” “Good & Plenty,” his Alex Isley cover glowed. “Navajo,” one of my favorites. Hearing it live was a delicious treat.
The set continued through “Dotted Line,” “Breathe,” “Gone,” “Unhinged,” and “Recommend,” before turning toward “Mystery Lady - Sego’s Remix.” The pacing of the set allowed the songs to breathe. Effortlessly. Masego could let a groove sit for a moment. Let the saxophone wander. Let his voice soften around a lyric before opening it back up again.
“Breathe” especially carries that emotional weight. On the album, the track sits inside a song about grief and the impossibility of simply asking the world to stop when your own world has been shaken.
“Hello,” “Old Age,” and “QVC,” the latter appearing on Fix Your Face. Of course,“Tadow,” came pouring into the night with so much love instilled in the audiences heart. The sense of community blossomed in full.
I had watched that original video mesmerized by the way Masego could build an entire world out of loops, instruments, and his own voice. Now I was watching him do it in front of a room full of people who had clearly fallen in love with the same magic. The encore fell into a reprise of “Hello.” A gentle loop back to the beginning.
The silk in Masego’s voice. The saxophone. The musicianship. The curiosity. The ability to take several different pieces and make them sound like they were always meant to exist together is the beauty of his artistry. There is no doubt in Masego’s gift. Its bold, and magnificent. An absolute pleasure to witness live.
Article by: Kili Goodrich
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Masego is a Jamaican-American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, producer, and saxophonist whose sound lives at the intersection of R&B, soul, jazz, hip-hop, and his self-defined “TrapHouseJazz.” His music has always carried an unmistakable sense of musicianship and improvisation, with the saxophone, looping, silky vocals, and layered production becoming essential pieces of his sonic identity.