Black Coffee
South African DJ and record producer · South Africa · On the map · Musicians · Born 1976 · age 50
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.
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The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
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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.
