A teenaged Shona Laing was one of the contestants in the 1972 television talent show New faces. She came second and her debut song '1905' and album Whispering afraid became nationwide hits the following year, when she collected two trophies at the New Zealand music awards. Watch Laing sing '1905' before an audience at the Christchurch Town Hall in 1972.
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