"Trenches Is a Real Place”: Singer Tems Reminisces on Humble Beginnings, Shares Photos of Former Studio

Popular Nigerian singer, Tems, recently took fans back in time to the days of her humble beginnings in the music industry. The music star who no doubt now rolls with the ‘big boys’ showed fans that things were not always glitzy and glamorous. 

Taking to her Twitter page, Tems shared photos of the music studio where she made her first body of work, For Broken Ears. Singer Tems shows her old studio. Photos: @temsbaby Source: Twitter In the photo, some equipment and musical instruments were put together in what looked like a makeshift music studio. 

In a subsequent post, Tems added that ‘Trenches’ is a real place as she showed other parts of the ‘studio’ in new photos. In her caption, she wrote: "Where I made FOR BROKEN EARS. Trenches is a real place." See her tweet below:

Trenches is a real place. pic.twitter.com/9IkSfydaAb

— TEMS (@temsbaby) July 7, 2022

Internet users react to Tems’ old studio photos After the singer’s post made the rounds online, a number of people reacted to it. Some of them expressed that she got the meaning of ‘trenches’ all wrong and that the ‘studio’ was not as bad as she thought. Read some of their comments below: 

Bentonglory01:

“But she was determined.”

Yungceo_soulex:

“Make she still thank Jah cus some artiste can't even afford to buy a laptop talkless of setting up little studio like she.”

Teezy.banks:

 “So na your trenches be this your trenches na some pple dope present apartment .”