By Nsiiro Jacob
Johannesburg-based producer and DJ whose 2012 album, Africa Rising, went platinum and earned him several awards. In 2005, he founded the company Soulistic Music and released his debut, self-titled album which won a SAMA award for Best Urban Dance Album. This maestro DJ and producer forged his musical background with his school choir and by studying the keyboard. He studied music in Durban because he felt that as a producer, he had to deepen his overall musical knowledge, develop his listening skills and advance his knowledge of music theory.
2003 saw Black Coffee starting to put his first project together. He revealed that his first album was created using very basic music-making software. “I don’t know how to explain the production stages of my album because all I did was put down the basic ideas that I had. I didn’t use any MIDI controllers or anything along those sophisticated lines. All I did was program the beats.”
