By BRIAN HATYOKA –

A NINTEEN-YEAR-OLD female upcoming musician based in Livingstone, Ruth Mlalazi, has released her first album on the market.
Ruth, whose music stage name is Twaila Rayson, has already released her music on both CDs and video.
She has previously performed in Botswana while she also has fans in South Africa.
The album titled Ready for You, has 14 songs which cater for older and younger people.
Some of the songs are Mwana Wamunzako, So What, Girl Child, Pop Champagne, No worries, Some More, Profit, Bad Girl, Niyitana, Wedding Day, No Money No Gololo and I will Praise You.
Ruth’s promoter and manager, Arthur Chiyaka, said in an interview that about 1, 000 CDs had been produced while more CDs would be produced soon as there was hug demand for her music.
Chiyaka said Ruth’s songs were already hitting the airwaves on Komboni Radio, Millennium Radio, Zambia Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) while her videos had started showing on MUVI TV.
“Now we have just received an instrumental from South Africa. There are guys who are interested in her song and there is a guy who is interested to feature in her No Money, No Gololo song,” Chiyaka said.
He said some Zambians living in South Africa were assessing the possibility of inviting Twaila Rayson to perform during Zambia’s Independence Day in South Africa on October 24, 2015.
Meanwhile, Ruth has urged young girls in Zambia to concentrate on their education if they want to have a bright future.
She said education was the key to success and hence it is important for girls to avoid engaging in vices that can curtail their future.
According to Ruth, young girls needed to take care of their bodies and keep away from elderly men.
Ruth dropped out of school after she was impregnated at the age of 16.
One of the key songs in the album is ‘Girl Child’ where she promotes the plight of the girl child.
Ruth says there are a lot of cases in Zambia currently where elderly men were taking advantage of young girls to disturb their future.
She says she is using music to discourage such behaviour by elderly men and also encourage girls not to do what she did at a tender age.
Ruth started singing when she was at primary school in 2011 after she discovered that she had a talent in music.
She said she wanted to mend the mistake of dropping out of school after she was impregnated.
“When I was at primary school, I was impregnated at the age of 16 and I now have a two year old child.
My mother died when I was nine years old while my father is still alive. I used to stay  with my step mum and the treatment I received from her was very bad,” she said.
Ruth is currently staying in Dambwa Site and Service while her father stays elsewhere in Maramba with her step mother.
“I want to look after my child and I don’t want to give the child to another person.
By now, I would have completed school if I did not make mistakes in life,” Ruth said.
In future, Ruth says she want to open an orphanage and help orphans who are suffering.
She also wants to go back to school in Grade nine to continue with her education.