Biography
Gale Garnett first gained widespread attention through her Grammy-winning folk single "We'll Sing in the Sunshine," before establishing a sustained presence in writing and acting.
Born Gale Zoë Garnett in Auckland, New Zealand, on July 17, 1942, she relocated with her family to Canada at age eleven and made her first public singing appearance in 1960. Her original song "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" reached the pop Top Five in 1964, the same year she issued her debut album, My Kind of Folk Songs, on RCA Victor. The track earned a Grammy for Best Folk Recording, after which Garnett kept releasing material through the remainder of the decade and eventually shifted toward psych-pop alongside her backing group, the Gentle Reign.
By the close of the 1960s she had begun taking supporting parts in films and on television. In the years that followed, Garnett expanded into journalism, contributing essays, columns, and book reviews to assorted newspapers and magazines. She also created and staged the two solo theater works Gale Garnett & Company and Life After Latex.
Born Gale Zoë Garnett in Auckland, New Zealand, on July 17, 1942, she relocated with her family to Canada at age eleven and made her first public singing appearance in 1960. Her original song "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" reached the pop Top Five in 1964, the same year she issued her debut album, My Kind of Folk Songs, on RCA Victor. The track earned a Grammy for Best Folk Recording, after which Garnett kept releasing material through the remainder of the decade and eventually shifted toward psych-pop alongside her backing group, the Gentle Reign.
By the close of the 1960s she had begun taking supporting parts in films and on television. In the years that followed, Garnett expanded into journalism, contributing essays, columns, and book reviews to assorted newspapers and magazines. She also created and staged the two solo theater works Gale Garnett & Company and Life After Latex.
Albums
Growing Pains, Growing Pleasures
2016
Gale Garnet And The Gentle Reign
2012
Sausalito Heliport
1969
An Audience with the King of Wands
1968
Gale Garnett Sings About Flying & Rainbows & Love & Other Groovy Things
1967
New Adventures
1966
Variety is the Spice of Gale Garnett
1966
The Many Faces of Gale Garnett
1965
Lovin' Place
1965
My Kind of Folk Songs
1964