About this artist
Trina Belamide is a Filipino songwriter and record producer. According to the Manila Times she has written songs for most of the Philippines' top recording artists.
Belamide began taking piano lessons at age 8 and started writing songs at 15. In highschool and college she was active in glee clubs as both a singer and songwriter. She said that this exposed her to a wider range of music and helped her make her first contacts in the music industry. She graduated from Ateneo College in 1990 and worked as an advertising copywriter for a short time before deciding to devote her full time to songwriting.
Belamide's professional career in music began in 1991, a year after her graduation in Ateneo, when Joey Albert recorded one of her songs after her friend Moy Ortiz of The CompanY asked her to submit songs for the said artist.
In 1995, Belamide's song "Tell the World of His Love" won the top prize in the search for the theme song for the 1995 World Youth Day to celebrate the visit of the Pope John Paul II to the Philippines.
In 1996 her song "Shine" won second place in the Metro Manila Popular Music Festival performed by Ima Castro.