For many, Trevilla de Trump needs no introduction. She has been a regular feature on the stages and nightclubs of Harare, for about fifteen years now. But it is a little known fact that her cabaret career started by pure accident whilst on holiday in Geneva in 1988. After seeing a poster in a nightclub looking for new talent, she thought, "Well, why not? Let's show these Swiss what a Zimbabwean Queen can do!" After a successful audition before a panel of judges (and don't listen to all those vicious rumours Sister Bertha has been putting out that there was a casting couch involved), she clinched her first job. It was those stunning legs that did it, and in no time at all Trevilla was in rehersal. Within a few weeks she was featuring in the drag shows at Geneva's notorious Garconniere, one of Europe's top cabaret venues.

But eventually, Trevilla had to come home. But the show biz bug had bitten her bad, and before long she was once again on the road to fame and fortune, appearing in places as far apart as Las Vegas, New York, Venice (with Grace Jones), Melbourne, and of course, Hip Hip Harare. Her repertoire includes impersonations of some of our greatest icons, such as Liza Minnelli, Grace Jones, Shirley Bassey, Nina Hagen, Sophie Tucker, and of course her most famous role, the purrrrfectly divine Eartha Kitt. Trevilla brings something new and exciting to her unique performances. She has the knack of bringing the house down every time, and having the men screaming for more, that is, when she hasn't got them eating out of her diamond encrusted hand.

Some of Trevilla's most memorable appearances have been at the Jacaranda Queen pageants. At the first pageant in 1993, she competed at Ms Trash, strutting down the catwalk clad in a designer disposable black plastic bin liner to the tune of George Michael's "Too Funky". As if it that were not enough, she thrilled the crowd by doing what nobody in Harare had done before: a total strip! At the following year's pageant, she entered as Ms Vac Pac, resplendent in gold lame hot pants and a gilded vacuum cleaner, sweeping out the competition to the strains of Freddie Mercury's "I Want To Break Free". She was elected Princess, thanks to her originality and wit.

Like Madonna, another one of her idols, Trevilla's success depends on constantly reinventing herself. Apart from her beauty, style and sex appeal, Trevilla further attributes her success to her love of the new and exciting, and of course, the most important of all, the love of a good man. As she so often says, "A good man is hard to find, doll, but a hard man is so good to find!" However, in the last few years she has been overshadowed by her, dare we say, younger and more glamourous sister Celeste. She does not seem to be too phased by it, as she has been spending more time at home cooking and decorating for her dashing husband