Shona Laing

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Shona Laing
Laing performing at WOMAD 2009 in New Zealand
Background information
Born	(1955-10-09) 9 October 1955 (age 69) New Zealand
Genres	Rock, new wave
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1972–present
Labels	Vertigo, Philips, Pagan Records, EMI, Virgin, Columbia, Epic
Formerly of	Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Shona Laing (born 9 October 1955) is a New Zealand musician. Laing had several folk hits in her native country and in the 1980s became internationally popular for her alternative music, most notably "(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy" and "Soviet Snow" which was based on the Chernobyl disaster. Various alternative radio stations in the US such as WLIR played songs from her "South" album and she became internationally known. Laing contributed to Manfred Mann's Earth Band album Somewhere in Afrika and contributed music to, and appeared in, the 1985 action film Shaker Run.^[1]