Black Coffee

Artist 1976

Nkosinathi Maphumulo, born in Umlazi near Durban in 1976, who lost the use of his left arm in a car accident during the celebrations of Nelson Mandela's release in 1990. He studied jazz in Durban, came through the Red Bull Music Academy in 2003 and turned South African house into a global export. Subconsciously won a Grammy in 2022.

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is associated with

Subconsciously (2021) it won a Grammy in 2022

was born in

Umlazi (1976)

belongs to the genre

House house, Afro house and deep house

studied at

Durban he studied jazz at what is now the Durban University of Technology

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Wikipedia: Black Coffee (DJ)

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