# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dj-maphorisa
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:41:03.462Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dj-maphorisa"
name: "DJ Maphorisa"
slug: "dj-maphorisa"
description: "Themba Sekowe, known professionally as DJ Maphorisa, is a South African DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter. As a record producer with a blend of house music, gqom, amapiano and afropop, he has worked with and has received production credits from several notable artists, including Wizkid, Sizwe Alakine, Kwesta, Uhuru, Drake, Black Coffee, Major Lazer, Runtown, C4 Pedro, TRESOR, Kabza De Small,Focalistic, Era Istrefi, Mpura, Young Stunna and Killer Kau. He was signed to Kalawa Jazmee Records prior to establishing his own record label, BlaqBoy Music."
tagline: "South African record producer, DJ, musician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1988"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           70.36
  momentum:             2.375838926174497
  historical:           6.993386666666666
  currentAttention:     10.79926784624771
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  23
  category: null
totalFollowers: 1430000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DjMaphorisa"
    handle:    "DjMaphorisa"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/djmaphorisa/"
    handle:    "djmaphorisa"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Djmaphorisa"
    handle:    "Djmaphorisa"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0mMqD2uqwvCjFvlzo6ayGi"
    handle:    "DJ Maphorisa"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFXyVm03fMlzI4B4sQkDtBA"
    handle:    "@djmaphorisa_sa"
    followers: 1430000
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4895541"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Maphorisa"
    title: "DJ Maphorisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Maphorisa"
    title: "DJ Maphorisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Maphorisa"
    title: "DJ Maphorisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Maphorisa"
    title: "DJ Maphorisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Maphorisa"
    title: "DJ Maphorisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C_%D8%AC%DB%92_%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "ڈی جے میفوریسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Maphorisa"
    title: "DJ Maphorisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/94dd8d27-5d42-4fa6-8851-84b470ed4b9f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25706797"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump