Shona Laing - Venerable Tui

Pioneering singer-songwriter Shona Laing was inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Her four decades in the music business began in 1972 when the 17-year-old won notice on TV talent show New Faces, with ‘1905’. Check out the forerunner for Lorde and Kimbra performing that song, alongside classic clips (Glad I’m Not a Kennedy, Soviet Snow), and a gem of an interview where the smoking Hutt High student crushes on Henry Fonda, sings ‘Killing Me Softly’, and muses that she “probably will carry on with the singing”.