Born Culolethu Zulu, he is known for his trance-inducing deep house style on his albums Elevation and 2014 release Exodus, which earned him an Annual Metro FM Music award for Best Male artist. BiographyĬuloe De Song was born in South Africa on August 20, 1990. Also discover famous DJ Culoe De Song’s Birthday, Measurements, Physical Stats, Dating, Wiki and more. I DJ a lot of music from South African producers.See learn details about Culoe De Song Net Worth, Age, Height, Bio, Salary. There are many promos I’m receiving from locals that are exactly what I was looking for at that time. I can’t really explain what I was looking for – it was in the rhythm and the sounds. So I thought, if I can’t find a certain sound, I should try to make it. But there was a point where there was nothing. Every now and then there would be something special from certain labels. We were getting music from overseas mostly, and not all of the records were making sense locally. You hear it in shops, mobile phones, you hear it almost everywhere. For instance, I get recognized on the street. Right now, I think house music is where hip hop was at back in the day in South Africa. You’ll have a Beyonce video on TV, and then the next one will be a South African house producer. House music is the biggest thing in South Africa for youth. Probably the biggest crowd I’ve ever played to was during the World Cup. Most of the parties I attend don’t have the same energy. But through my traveling, and being exposed to the club scene in Europe and America, I’ve realized that we have the biggest house scene in the world in South Africa. We always thought that house was big internationally, because that’s where we got it from. It sounds very Innervisions.” I guess people like Dixon started getting emails from those people, and then I started seeing YouTube videos of him playing my tune “ The Bright Forest” at places like Cielo in New York When I first started playing music internationally, people would say, “Oh, this is very nice. I attended RBMA in 2008, and I only had music that was released on the internet and South African websites. I really love movies, so that’s where the strings come from. But my music is deep, tribalistic and cinematic. He changed his sound totally for his second album. I think that bothered him a lot for a while. There was nothing like his first album at the time. I think he created a genre, a different sound, when he came out. What makes him different, even in the beginning, was his sound.
I met him when he was still in high school.
He took a song of mine and we decided to make it a collaboration on his album, and a few years later he told me that he wanted an album of music from me.Ĭuloe de Song is one of South Africa’s most gifted artists. Eventually, I guess, he felt like he wanted to give me a foundation. Every time Black Coffee would come to Durban, I would give him some stuff.
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I had a program called FL Studio and was fooling around with the software to the point where I could finally burn a CD and say to someone, “Hey, listen to this.” The legal age was 18 to go into clubs, but I was lucky because I was a bit taller. I started DJing and producing in high school at the age of 16 when I got my first computer. There are examples of people making it in Durban, for example, but they often spend a lot of money on flights to Jo’burg. If you have an album in a small town and it’s the best thing ever, but it doesn’t come to Jo’burg. It’s that one place where, if you make it there, the whole country will accept you. Everyone is here to chase dreams and work hard. It’s very hot, not just climate-wise, but also socially. Johannesburg is not a city for the faint-hearted. Television, radio, you need to be here to use those platforms more practically. The city is a little bit like the New York of South Africa. My music got really big in Jo’burg, and so I would need to come up here to do things. He took me under his wing to the point where when I started doing my thing, I would stay with him when I was in Jo’burg. I think there’s a bigger power behind me, and my job is to inspire.īlack Coffee has been a mentor to me in many ways. Anyone who has any doubts in life should know that if you have a dream – and you’re willing to work hard – that anything is possible. I see myself not only as an ambassador of music, but I also see myself as God’s work. When I look back now at what I have achieved, I think it all happened for a reason. When I was younger, I had a car accident and lost the use of my left arm.