Black Coffee on South African Club Music and Evolution | Red Bull Music Academy

In his 2016 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, Black Coffee discussed the early club sounds of South Africa, breaking through in a burgeoning local industry, working with Hugh Masekela, and more. #RBMA TOPICS: 3:01 - Growing up in South Africa 23:35 - Mid-tempo 26:19 - Kwaito 34:12 - Hugh Masekela 51:35 - Africa Rising 1:04:04 - South African music industry Durban, South Africa, is one of the hottest scenes for dance music right now. Black Coffee, real name Nathi Maphumulo, serves as its elder statesman. The 40-year-old first appeared at the Academy as one of two South African participants at the 2003 Red Bull Music Academy in Cape Town. His style of Afropolitain house is, in his words, “home-brewed but future-focused.” Maphumulo's recording career began in 2005 with a remix of Hugh Masekela's 1972 hit "Stimela" and has gone on to include five solo albums, including 2015's Pieces of Me, which has been certified double platinum in South Africa. The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year. ► Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/10OyDHc ► Visit our official website: http://win.gs/avjLrK ► Our latest videos on YouTube: http://bit.ly/12nkX7h ► Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/Lx4wQy ► Like us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/12N5Ch0