Claim: Nadia Reid, a singer-songwriter and guitarist, learned to play the guitar at 14 years old and started out as a member of her school choir who later on received nominations from multiple award giving bodies such as the APRA Silver Scroll.
Evidence: Nadia Reid (born 26 August 1991) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Port Chalmers, New Zealand. Reid began playing the guitar at 14, and went on to win best female musician in the Smokefreerockquest. She was a member of the Queen's madrigal choir, winners of the New Zealand Choral Federation (Otago) Millennium Trophy for secondary school choirs in 2009. Reid's first single from ''Preservation'', Richard, saw her nominated for the APRA Silver Scroll award in 2017, regarded as New Zealand's most important songwriting award. Judges described the song as "a stand-out folk-rock gem with its wonderfully direct delivery, charting heartbreak and dissolution, through striking imagery". Also in 2017, producer Ben Edwards won a New Zealand Music Award for his work on Preservation, and Reid herself was nominated for Best Solo Artist, Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Best Alternative Artist.