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Black Coffee (DJ)
South African DJ and producer
Musical artist
Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo (born 11 March 1976), better known by his stage name Black Coffee, is a South African DJ, record producer and songwriter. His accolades include eight South African Music Awards, four DJ Awards, two Metro FM Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album.[4][5]
He began his career in 1994, and gained recognition for his participation in the 2004 Red Bull Music Academy a decade later. Maphumulo established the record label Soulistic Music to release his debut self-titled album Black Coffee (2005), which incorporated elements of R&B and jazz. He has since released nine studio albums.[6][7][8][9]
Early life and career
[edit]Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo was born on 11 March 1976 in eThekwini, South Africa. He later moved to Umtata, the town 29 km away from the home of Nelson Mandela Qunu village, stay
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Early Life and Education
DJ Black Coffee was born on March 11, 1976, in Umlazi, South Africa. He grew up in a music environment, mainly because he was impacted by his uncle’s enormous reggae collection as a child. Later on, he was 12 years old when he left for Umtata with his mother after having divorced his father. The territory is located near the Ngangelizwe township and 29 kilometres from Nelson Mandela‘s residence in Qunu.
In 1990, while everyone was celebrating Nelson Mandela’s release from Robben Island, Maphumulo, he was involved in a taxi accident and sustained serious injuries to his left arm.
However, he returned to Durban to attend Natal Tech, where he majorly studied jazz music theory but left school early. Later on, he and his two friends, Thandukwazi “Demor” Sikhosana and Mnqobi “Shota” Mdabe went on to establish the Afro-pop trio “Shana.” (Simply Hot and Naturally African). They were
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