Shanley Del - Red Roses (1993)

A country music star in Australia, New Zealand-born Shanley Del considers her “big break” moment at the beginning of the 1990s was almost straight out of a storybook. One of three singers in 10-piece Auckland country band The Waltons, she had been invited by a man she knew only as Bones to record a demo at Mt Tiger Studio outside Whangarei. A solo mum at the time, she drove up there in a frenzy, played her songs and burst into tears.