Report: 15-Year-Old Heavy Metal Chick Turns Heads

September 12, 2008

New Zealand's TVNZ.co.nz reports: The female lead guitarist of a Christchurch high school band is turning heads in the New Zealand music world.

Fifteen-year-old Sophia Di was part of the winning heavy metal band called BENEATH THE SILENCE (MySpace page) that won this year's Rockquest Music final.

Sophia says she is an avowed heavy metal music lover and plays with all the gusto of a professional metal player, complete with the headbanging.

"You get a really sore neck. But my neck's sort of built up resistance over a couple of years. I can do it better now," says Sophia.

Read the entire report from TVNZ.co.nz.

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