[1] In 2011, he started his music career and became a finalist during the eighth season of M-Net singing reality competition Idols.
In 2012, he joined the cast of the popular eTV soap opera Rhythm City and played the role "Sifiso Ngema".
[6][7] On 22 August 2017, his wife released Masilela's last recorded song "UPhushiwe" on the Fresh Breakfast show on Metro FM.
[8] On 2 August 2017, Masilela was shot in the stomach during a hijacking in Tembisa, where reports suggest he was sitting inside a Golf 7 with a friend, Bongani Nkosi.
These five men were: Bongani John Masombuka, Sfundo Harrison Nkosi, Khumbuzo Solomon Mukhaba, Brian Makhubedu, and Mashudu Malema, while the fifth suspect died in a robbery.