Tetu Shani is a self-taught percussionist and guitarist. In 2014, Tetu Shani got accepted to the prestigious Berklee College of Music with a scholarship to study performance. He, however, turned it down desiring to be a part of the musical renaissance happening in Nairobi and to help build up the local music scene.

Tetu Shani has since become an award winning singer-songwriter who currently describes his sound as Afro pop-rock, which is a blend of indie rock, Afro-pop and folkloric rhythms from Kenya. He was nominated for East African Male Musician of the year in 2016 at the Kenya Buzz Awards, won the Silver Award at the 2017 Global Music Awards for his song Samalina, and won Best New Age Contemporary Artist at the inaugural 2017 Cafe Ngoma Awards.