Meet Black Coffee

Black Coffee has been a household name in his home country of South Africa for nearly a decade. But over the last few years, the 40-year-old DJ and producer — born Nkosinathi Maphumulo and raised in Umlazi, a township community outside of Durban — has made it his goal to bring South African house music to the rest of the world.“House music was an international thing for us,” he said.

After an official remix of Alicia Keys’s “In Common,” Black Coffee’s 2015 album, Pieces of Me, was released worldwide in August. From family, to community, to clan, to culture, to country, to the world; all are blessed with the prodigious talent and productivity of such a great creative genius, as is Black Coffee.