An Auckland student has won the Lion Foundation Songwriting Competition.
Play It Strange announced the winner and list of finalists for their flagship competition, the Lion Foundation Songwriting Competition which is open to all secondary school students.
Grace Wood, who is in year 13 at St Kentigern College won with her song 'Young, Naive and Reckless'.
Along with a trophy, Grace receives a $1,000 NZ Rockshop voucher and a $10,000 NZ On Air Making Tracks grant for recording and making a music video.
The judges said Grace mastered the match of music and lyrics really well.
"Her inventive melody/rhythms were cool. It was a song we kept playing again and again".
Grace and the other 41 finalists will now have the opportunity to go into a professional recording studio to record their songs and have them mastered for the annual Play It Strange double CD.