1. Virginia Claire Wigmore was born on 6 June 1986 and is a New Zealand singer and songwriter.
23 Facts About Gin Wigmore
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Gin Wigmore is known for her high pitched and raspy voice.
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Two years later her father died of cancer and Gin Wigmore stopped writing and playing music.
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Gin Wigmore went to Argentina on an exchange programme to teach at a kindergarten.
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Gin Wigmore's sister entered the song in the US-based International Songwriting Competition in 2004, and Wigmore beat 11,000 songwriting aspirants from 77 countries to become the youngest and only unsigned Grand Prize winner in the history of the competition.
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Gin Wigmore was the first artist signed with Island Records, a partner company with Universal Music Group, Australia.
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Gin Wigmore toured in 2008, including at the Cross Town Revue in Auckland, and in December 2008, toured with musicians John Mellencamp and Sheryl Crow in New Zealand.
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Gin Wigmore's hit single "Under My Skin" was featured on an Air New Zealand advertising campaign, Nothing to Hide.
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Gin Wigmore was featured in the 2009 song and video of "Brother" by a new group Smashproof, from Auckland.
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Gin Wigmore's song "Stealing Happiness" appeared in the TV movie "Tangiwai".
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Gin Wigmore travelled for two months in Mississippi and Alabama to get a Southern United States inspiration for her second album which would be recorded in California under producer Butch Walker.
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Gin Wigmore released music videos for "Man Like That" and "If Only".
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Gin Wigmore appeared singing it on Gift of Revenge, a segment of ABC's television show Revenge season 2, episode 7.
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Gin Wigmore was featured in a Skyfall tie-in commercial from Heineken performing the song "Man Like That", which featured James Bond portrayer Daniel Craig and Bond girl Berenice Marlohe.
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On 14 August 2014, Gin Wigmore had confirmed she had begun studio production on her third LP.
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On 29 January 2015, Gin Wigmore posted the album cover and title of her the third LP, Blood to Bone, which was scheduled for release by Island Records on 26 June 2015.
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On 2 September 2016, Gin Wigmore announced on Facebook she had begun work on her fourth studio album.
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Later on 3 November, Gin Wigmore dropped "Dirty Mercy", the lead single from her upcoming fourth album, which she had expected to release in 2017.
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Gin Wigmore was born in Auckland, New Zealand to Peter and Adrienne Gin Wigmore.
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Gin Wigmore has two older siblings: brother Oliver Wigmore is a scientist with a PhD in glacial hydrology, while sister Lucy Wigmore, a professional actress known for starring as Justine Jones in the long-running New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street and a role in Underbelly: Razor.
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Gin Wigmore married Jason Butler, lead singer of the band Letlive and currently lead singer of Fever 333, during a private ceremony in Hawaii in September 2014.
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Gin Wigmore's second son, Izaiah River Butler, was born on 20 March 2020.
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Gin Wigmore is vegetarian and, in 2015, was shortlisted for SAFE's "New Zealand's Hottest Vegetarians" award.