For T-Sean, the new music is not simply another release.
It is a way of putting grief into words.
The Zambian musician, songwriter and producer has released Woke Up Missing You, a five-track EP dedicated to the memory of his late wife, Sharai Mulonda Mulenga, who died on July 27, 2026.
Released on September 29, the project brings together songs shaped by loss, remembrance and the difficult process of adjusting to life without someone who has been part of it.
The EP includes “Missing You,” “Mutima Wakana,” “Tears and Tequila Shots,” “Nkosheni,” and “Chimanibaba.”
What makes the project particularly personal is how some of the material began.
According to T-Sean, some of the lyrics started as notes typed into his phone during late nights, while others appeared as WhatsApp statuses as he tried to process the loss. Those fragments eventually became songs.
That gives Woke Up Missing You a different starting point from the usual studio project. It is music emerging from a very specific moment in the artist's life rather than a collection built primarily around charts, collaborations or commercial release cycles.
T-Sean has spent more than a decade moving between dancehall, Afropop, R&B and songwriting, building a catalogue that includes albums such as 90 Days, Time-bomb, Grateful and Purpose.
But this EP occupies a different space.
There is no need to turn grief into something polished for an audience. The title itself — Woke Up Missing You — captures the repetitive nature of loss: waking up, remembering, and having to confront the absence all over again.
For listeners who have experienced loss themselves, that feeling may be more familiar than any particular genre.
The project also arrives on what would have been Sharai's birthday, adding another layer to an already deeply personal release.
In that sense, Woke Up Missing You is less about presenting a new side of T-Sean and more about documenting where he is right now.
Sometimes music is made for the audience.
Sometimes it is simply how an artist gets through something.
This appears to be the latter.
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