LET ME BE

"LET ME BE" is a single by The Second Voice, an anonymous, mask-wearing artist from Zambia whose music Music Ally describes as a blend of Afro-house and Amapiano. According to Music Ally, he wrote the demo, melody and lyrics himself on an old laptop, and AI was used for the female vocals and the final production, which the label put down to a shortage of studios and session singers in Zambia. World Music Views describes the track as the work of a faceless Zambian creator using AI vocals. Spotify dates the single 25 January 2026; Spinnin' Records, a Warner Music subsidiary, signed it after early traction on TikTok and YouTube.

The song held No. 1 on Billboard's U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart for a sixth straight week on the chart dated 13 June 2026, its 15th week on that chart, and had earlier topped Shazam's global chart. By then it had passed 47 million Spotify streams, and the track showed more than 89.4 million Spotify plays as of 30 September 2026.

Spinnin' told Music Ally it disclosed the AI involvement to streaming services, radio and partners from the start. Radio in Germany, France and the Netherlands took it up, while UK radio and Deezer pushed back or dropped it from playlists once the AI use was known. The label went on to shoot an official video in Zambia and to prepare a masked live show.