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Studio Mtaani · For music

Own your sound. Be on the record.

For artists, producers and publishers. Your work under your name, your splits agreed, and what it earns paid to your phone, on WhatsApp.

  • Nothing to pay up front
  • All on WhatsApp
  • No app to download
  • Signed or unsigned
On the recordYour works and splits

One record that shows the work is yours.

Every song, beat and recording you make, listed under your name with everyone who helped. It all happens on WhatsApp, with an agent nearby when you'd rather talk to a person.

We are not a label, a distributor or a lender. Your rights stay yours, and no partner sees your record without your permission.

Your music is yours

  • We check your ID once. After that, every song you register is in your name.
  • Everyone who worked on a song signs for their cut. That sheet is what we pay from.
  • Every recording gets its code, so it counts wherever it plays.

Getting paid

  • Put your music on the stores from WhatsApp. Free.
  • Every month, everyone who made the song gets their own cut sent to their own phone, with a message showing where it came from.
  • See what your music earned, and where. Show it to a bank if you want. Nobody sees it unless you say yes.
How it worksFour steps

Four steps, all on WhatsApp.

When you add a work, everyone who helped make it gets an invite to confirm their share.

  1. Ji-Register SasaNow

    Your name, your WhatsApp number and your country. Under a minute on your phone.

  2. Say hi on WhatsAppToday

    Send us a message, so your invite lands in a chat you already have.

  3. Check your ID, add your first work

    We verify your national ID and link it to your WhatsApp number. Then tell us about your first work: its title, who helped, and who owns what.

  4. Everyone signs, your record grows

    Everyone who helped confirms their share. Then the work is registered with the right codes and goes on your record.

An example. The real chat asks for your ID and who you made the work with.

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Someone is listening to your work right now.

Make sure your name is on it, and that it pays you.

QuestionsBefore you join

What does it cost?

Nothing. Registration is free, and the first 1,000 Founding Creators get their first work registered free.

Do I give up my rights?

No. Jabali Studio never takes your copyright. The record shows what you already own.

Can I leave?

Yes. Give us 30 days' notice and take your record with you.

1,000

Founding Creators. The first 1,000 people get in first and get their first work registered free. Bring someone you made it with and you both jump 25 places.

Ji-Register Sasa
Studio Mtaani · For music

Ready? Ji-Register Sasa.

Under a minute on your phone. We take it from there on WhatsApp, and in person at the Mtaani Sessions, Nairobi first.

1,000Founding Creatorsfirst work registered free