Booking DJ Black Coffee

DJ Black Coffee Biography

Black Coffee is a South African DJ and producer born Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo in 1976. He was born in Umlazi, South Africa, but later moved to Durban. He completed a degree in jazz studies at the Durban University of Technology and began working as a backup singer to a prominent local singer with some fellow students. Coffee broke into the scene in 2003 when he was selected for the Red Bull Music Academy in Cape Town.

Coffee began his career officially with his 2005 remix to Hugh Masekela’s “Stimela.” That same year he released his debut album and created a company. By 2007 he had grown in the South African music scene and released his second album to critical success. In 2009 he released Home Brewed, Coffee’s third album which proved to be successful among listeners and critics alike. He has continued to release music and collaborated with many of the top musicians in the world, including Drake and Usher.

Coffee has released five studio albums and two EPs. All have done well in his home country and seen international success to an extent. He has performed in illustrious settings such as the Boiler Room and Ultra Music Festival. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest non-stop DJ set at sixty hours, set in 2010.

Coffee recently released his latest track “LALALA” with singer Usher, his first release since his Music Is King EP.