# Black Coffee

> A South African DJ who turned house music into a global lingua franca, racking up a Grammy and eight national awards while building a sound that folds jazz and R&B into the grid of electronic rhythm.

*South African DJ and record producer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/black-coffee

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** South Africa
- **Born:** 1976
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo was born 11 March 1976 and started working as a DJ in 1994, spending a decade in relative obscurity before the 2004 Red Bull Music Academy put him in wider view. He launched his own imprint, Soulistic Music, to release his self-titled debut in 2005, an album that wove R&B and jazz through the house template and set the template for what followed. Nine studio albums later, the accolades stacked up: eight South African Music Awards, four DJ Awards, two Metro FMs, and a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album. The name Black Coffee now moves crowds on multiple continents, but the architecture of the sound - warm, patient, rooted - hasn't changed.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 63.4
- **Momentum:** 0.5
- **Country rank:** #19
- **Total followers across platforms:** 406,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/realblackcoffee (@realblackcoffee)
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/realblackcoffee/ (@realblackcoffee)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/realblackcoffee (@realblackcoffee)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6wMr4zKPrrR0UVz08WtUWc (@6wMr4zKPrrR0UVz08WtUWc)
- **WEBSITE**: https://www.realblackcoffee.net/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0cUnMCsopLMon3_lXYTx_g (@@realblackcoffee, 406,000 followers)

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- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7fa03932-cd68-498f-aa4f-d4a6a2ce6071)
- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/673106)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Black_Coffee_(DJ))
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16215736)

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