There’s nothing like a Kiwi accent to get Vertigo eds excited and this time it’s singer/songwriter Gin Wigmore (it probably also helps that her name is synomymous with an alcoholic beverage). 
At 16, Gin won the US-based International Songwriting Contest with an acoustic ballad called “Hallelujah”, a song she’d penned in honour of her father who’d recently lost his fight with cancer. [Holy Smoke is also dedicated to her dad.] “Hallelujah” was actually one of the first songs she’d ever written, but it made Gin the competition’s youngest ever winner, and also the first unsigned artist to win the major prize, beating 11,000 songwriters from 77 countries. Pretty impressive.
Her debut album ‘Holy Smoke’ is out now and you can catch Gin at Notes in Enmore (73 Enmore Road, Enmore) on August 27.
