Before her name could fly all across Zambia and the world, Lusaka based artist Trina South hints quitting making music. In a 5am(05:00 hours) post, the singer wrote, “I quit(with broken heart emoji),” seemingly having been contemplating on her career in the morning.
Trina South started her career as an independent artist recording music with her producer, making several waves on the Zambian music scene before being signed to Jay Rox’s Headphone music label. The singer left the label in 2024 with other signees, F Jay, Mpikwa and Ace Trap with nothing to show for it.
Many social users cited her departure from the label to be due to frustration of little to no success and going silent for a long time without releasing new music whilst others attributed their poor performance to singer, rapper and dancehall artist Jay Rox being busy pushing his career and not managing to push other artists’ careers at the same time.
While at Headphone music, according to our sources, Trina South released two songs, “Akamutima” and “Pressure,” which saw little to no impact on her career after accumulating only 53,000 and 20,000 YouTube views in years. The singer also featured on some of the label’s artist’s songs, including on Jay Rox’s, but it wasn’t enough for the world to hear her into prominent success.
After so many years of writing and recording music, her vocals on DBWOY’s “Chakolwa Ku Bar” featuring herself and Vinchezo went on to accumulate over 800,000 YouTube views becoming well, her first major successful song even though not as a lead artist. Despite being an artist whose vocals are highly sought after, Trina South has not seen much desirable success with her own records.
The singer lost her Facebook page with thousands of followers, a major setback in her promising career, but started from scratch building a new platform to communicate with her devoted fans and now is sitting at 67,000 followers, highlighting her resilience and consistency.
As fans send in encouraging messages, “Never give up” and “You are talented” were the most used phrases in the comment section. “Never give up, push harder just know that you have fans and family,” a fan said in his desperate plea to see the artist on the mic again.
Music is an expensive venture and without support to finance recording time, music videos and other necessities it can be overwhelming. The question now is her career ending prematurely? The artist has been making music for almost a decade now, well, her fans would hope she keeps giving them a dose of what they’ve been receiving.
