Shona Laing - Give It A Whirl Interview

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Shona Laing - Give It A Whirl Interview

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Shona Laing wrote and sang her first top ten hit as a Wellington teenager, and was later heard around the globe thanks to her synth-driven single '(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy'. In this interview for 2003 TV series Give It A Whirl, Laing covers many topics, including:   Being "signed, sealed and delivered" to Kiwi record company Phonogram as a teen, before she'd made her TV debut on talent show New Faces (4 minutes in) How her early hit '1905' was inspired by an infatuation with actor Henry Fond...

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