Gin Wigmore

Gin Wigmore is a New Zealand born singer and recording artist.

Background
Gin taught herself the guitar growing up in the suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand and scribbed down notebooks full of lyrics.

At the age of 14-years-old she penned her first song, Angelfire. Before her 15th birthday, Gin had written an album’s worth of songs. She started playing small gigs, landing a weekly residency at a local Auckland pub.

Gin borrowed enough money to pay for only one hour at a local recording studio, so she just whacked 12 songs down, mistakes included.

Soon after this first recording session in 2002, the Wigmore family was dealt a tragic blow: Gin’s father, Peter, died of cancer.

Gin wrote a tribute song to her father called Hallelujah. Her sister, entered Gin’s song in the US-based International Songwriting Competition. She won both the Teen and Grand Prizes.

The prestigious award, judged by music industry professionals and artists Sean Combs, Bo Diddley, and Branford Marsalis, had chosen Hallelujah over 11,000 other entries from around the world, making Gin the youngest and only unsigned Grand Prize winner in the history of the competition.

As part of the ISC prize, Gin was awarded a trip to the US, and a semester of study at one of the world’s top music institutions, Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Massachusetts.

2008

Gin Wigmore is currently recording with Australian producer, Tony Buchen (Lior, Kid Confucius, The Church) and plans on releasing an EP in early 2008, followed by a tour around Australia. Gin is managed by Vicky Blood, and is the first artist signed to Island Records Australia.

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