Lucia Jakeni On Unemployment And Losing Her Boyfriend After Idols

Lucia Jakeni On Unemployment And Losing Her Boyfriend After Idols. Most may remember the talented songstress Lucia Jakeni from Idols SA season 12 who stole many hearts with her melody but couldn’t make it to the finals.

The singer has now announced the news that she just released a new single to her name titled Wenzani Ngami produced by Afro-pop singer Linda Gcwensa. The single details the struggles Jakeni went through which include being unemployed and compelled to break up with her long time boyfriend right after her short journey on Idols SA.

When Lucia returned home after Idols both she and her boyfriend were unemployed and their relationship wasn’t progressing so she decided to get out. “I had been doing everything in the relationship – he hadn’t paid damages to my family for our kids and I was always living with the hope he would one day change but things stayed the same and I was still taking care of the household with money I made at gigs and song royalties.”

Touching on the meaning of the song the rising star said that it’s about men who fail to take up responsibilities while women do it all.

“Wenzani Ngami will cause a lot of controversies because it speaks directly to men who do not want to take responsibility in their relationships and are not willing to commit,” Lucia says, adding many women stay in stagnant relationships hoping the men will change.

“You cook, clean, mother and take care of a man but he refuses to stand up and be the head of the home and doesn’t show any signs of wanting to marry you,” said the mother of two.

Lucia added that she was in the same situation for seven years, without a marriage proposal coming forward. Being a mother to 5-year-old Mlungisi and 4-year-old Musa, Lucia says after being eliminated from Idols she realised she needed to get out of the relationship.

Her song Wenzani Ngami is available for Download on iTunes.