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.
