When she was just three years old Elizabeth Maindonald opened the Lower Hutt Country Music Awards in front of 300 people, her dad Lindsay says.
Parents Lindsay and Anita Maindonald were both competing in the awards - but her dad had to hold the microphone while she sang Country Roads to the large audience.
Blonde haired, blue eyed little Elizabeth had country music well ingrained in her psyche by the time she was three - because she had been going to country music events with her parents since babyhood.
On Saturday the Eltham six-year-old sang Cotton Fields to win the under-seven age group section of the Muddy River Country Music Awards held at Whanganui's St Andrews Presbyterian Church.
The overall winner was Hayley Cole, 14, from the Te Awamutu Country Music Club, and the runner-up was 12-year-old Terina Sadlier from the Wainuiomata Country Music Club.