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Room 308

Publishing imprint and joint release vehicle for Kenyan artists Calvo Mistari and Naiboi, used for their collaborative singles ahead of a joint album.

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Kenya
Founder
Calvo Mistari; Naiboi (Michael Kennedy Claver)

Room 308 is a publishing imprint and joint release vehicle for Kenyan artists Calvo Mistari and Naiboi (Michael Kennedy Claver), used to put out a run of collaborative singles — including “Rudisha,” “All My Dreams,” “Zama,” “The Prize” and “Baddest” — ahead of their planned joint album, 308.

No legal registration, founding date or ownership split between the two artists has been established from public sources; trade coverage (Music In Africa, allAfrica) documents it purely as the credited imprint on the pair’s releases. It has no known company website or dedicated social account distinct from the artists’ own channels.

Room 308 matters as a small but concrete example of two independent Kenyan artists structuring a joint body of work under a shared name rather than releasing as loose collaborations, in a market where that kind of catalogue-building is still uncommon outside the majors.

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