Okito’s '3AM' Is An Ode To Booty Calls
Orlando, FL-based Okito was raised on an eclectic diet of soul and world music. The child of Guyanese immigrants, whose passions included calypso and poetry, Okito’s musical upbringing would go on to inform his genre-defying blend of Blues, Reggae and Hip Hop.
Over the past decade, Okito has established himself as a fixture in the Orlando music scene, performing around the city and lending his worldly aesthetic to expertly crafted productions - tracks that have gone on to receive press on WaxPoetics, Okayplayer and PopMatters. He released 3 EPs alongside soul singer Moziac, was a founding member of the collective Doxside Music Group, and was formerly known as Synopse before embracing the uniqueness of his birth name and embarking on his new musical fusion.
Okito’s debut LP, ‘Dystopian Heart’ is an ode to his roots, marinated in a deep nostalgia for the past, even incorporating the ‘aura’ of 50’s and 60’s Rock and Roll which played in the halls of his childhood home. These auditory memories, coupled with a recent breakup, resulted in an outpouring of effortlessly sophisticated compositions that would come to make up the LP - material flush with old school cool and new school swagger.