The Kiffness is an artist from Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. He is well known for his collaborations with interesting people & animals around the world. The project was founded by David Scott in 2011, but came to internet prominence in 2020.
From relatively humble beginnings in 2011, David began playing music
that he had made in his bedroom in small bars in Cape Town &
Plettenberg Bay with his brother Mike. Inspired by live electronic act,
Goldfish, David fused live keyboards & trumpet with electronic
tracks & his brother played live electronic drums.
The project began making headway in 2014 when David’s music started
playing on South African national radio stations, and the project
expanded it’s members, including Mathew Gold on vocals, Mvelo Shandu on
bass, and Raiven Hansmann & Clem Carr on keys & sax. Between
these members, the band toured extensively both in South Africa and
abroad.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, David turned his efforts to YouTube where
he began singing parodies about the Coronavirus. These parodies opened
David up to a much greater international online audience, and his
YouTube channel began to grow. After making many parody songs, David
began to experiment with “internet collabs”, where he took interesting
videos from the internet and started remixing them. These videos became a
huge hit. In 2022 he began touring his new “internet collab” live show,
with a sold out Germany tour in November of 2022.