The small beginnings of DJ Black Coffee

In an old newspaper add you can see the now famous DJ Black Coffee’s entrance in 2009 was a mere R10 for a gig he hosted, now the Grammy Award-winning hitmaker charges between R2,7 million and R5 million per gig.

Over the last two decades, DJ, Producer and Entrepreneur Black Coffee has established himself as one of the most prominent global names in Electronic music. Black Coffee has broken down boundaries musically, bringing his South African roots to the world with a blend of heavily traditional African percussion and distinctively metropolitan techno, dubbed by many as “Afropolitan House”.

In just a matter of years, Black Coffee has become one of the top touring performers in the world, with a myriad of residencies in global dance music hot-spots such as Hï in Ibiza and The Wynn in Las Vegas on top of an impressive tour schedule of over 150 shows per year.

When Nkosinathi Maphumulo aka Black Coffee isn’t on the road, he spends time supporting local charities in South Africa through music and education, as well as helping the next generation of entrepreneurs through his company Flight Mode Digital as an angel investor.