The Kiffness who’s full name is David Scott is a South African musician, producer and parody artist who is the founder and lead singer for the band “The Kiffness”.
Despite the name of the band, Scott is referred to as The Kiffness alone.
The Kiffness Early Life
In 2004, Scott was a member of the KwaZulu-Natal Youth Choir. Scott was educated at Michaelhouse school and went to the University of the Witwatersrand to study medicine.
However, he dropped out and switched to studying music and philosophy at Rhodes University while working as a DJ and playing in a jazz band.
The Kiffness Age
He was Born on 11th February 1988, In Cape Town, South Africa
The Kiffness Career
In 2013, he released his first single “Where are You Going?” with Matthew Gold, which made the 5FM Top 40. Their album Kiff was nominated at the 21st South African Music Awards in 2015 and again in 2017.
He usually performs wearing a floral custom suit that he had made in Hội An, Vietnam, with a material selected by his wife and himself as it resembled his grandmother’s curtains.
Scott creates satirical songs that are mostly aimed at South African political issues. In 2017, he released a song called “White Privilege” as an attempt to make white South Africans more socially aware.
In 2018, he filmed a video for his Afrikaans song “Pragtig Meisie” with a picture of the Afrikaner nationalist singer Steve Hofmeyr’s face on a blow-up doll.
In 2019, Scott banned the South African Broadcasting Corporation from playing his music when it emerged they had not been paying musicians for playing their songs and he alleged he was owed R60,000. In the same year, he embarked upon a solo career.
In 2020, The Kiffness parodied the national anthem of South Africa for a song called “Nkosazan’ Dlamini Trafficker” as part of a criticism of Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s ban on the sale of cigarettes in South Africa during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina criticised him for doing it to the anthem, claiming it was “racist”. Scott and Masina later discussed it over the phone with Scott defending it as satire.
He also wrote other lockdown parody songs and created a parody of “Jerusalema” aimed at the Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema following EFF activists attacking Clicks shops over a shampoo advertisement which they considered racist.
In late 2020, he collaborated with the Turkish musician Bilal Göregen in creating a remix of Göregen’s rendition of “Ievan polkka” that went viral on YouTube.
In 2021, he created a song parodying Miriam Makeba’s “The Click Song” to assist people with pronouncing the new names of Port Elizabeth, King William’s Town and Maclear after the South African government changed them.
Activism
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Scott supported Ukraine by remixing the Ukrainian folk song “Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow” performed by Boombox frontman Andriy Khlyvnyuk.
The latter cancelled his American tour to defend his country against the invasion by Russian Armed Forces. Royalties from this remix will be donated to humanitarian aid for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Personal Life
The Kiffness is married to Jüte Scott and they have a son together whose name is Sam Scott. He was born January 8, 2022.
Awards and nominations
YouTube Creators Awards
100,000 subscribers |
2021 |
1,000,000 subscribers |
2022 |
The Kiffness Networth
The Kiffness is worth $4 million (Four million dollars)
Kiffness Life Summary
The Kiffness Real Name |
Scott David (The Kiffness) |
The Kiffness Date Of Birth |
11 February 1988 |
Occupation |
Music Artiste, DJ, Producer |
Place of Birth |
Cape Town, South Africa |
Nationality |
South African |
Spouse |
Jüte Scott |
Number of Children |
1 |
Net-Worth |
$4 million |
The Kiffness Social Media Handles
As at the time of writing this article, he currently has over 1million followers on Instagram and 3.3m on Facebook.
- Instagram: @thekiffness
- Twitter: @Thekiffness
- Facebook: thekiffness
- YouTube: The Kiffness
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