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Alan Garrity
Singer songwriter
Alan Garrity is a musician who had a number of hits in South Africa and Rhodesia.
He had his first hit with Put Your Hand in the Hand which was No 1 on the Springbok Top 20 chart for four weeks in 1971. This was followed up by I Need Someone which reached No 2 on Springbok Top 20 and spent 33 weeks on the charts[1] and won the 1972 South African Recording Industry (SARI) Award for Best Song of the Year.[2][3] In 1973, he won SARI awards for Best Album of the Year and Best Male Vocalist. His next single, a cover of Home Isn't Home Anymore, reached no 5 on the charts.[4][5]
In 1975 he won a second SARI Award for Best Male Vocalist and his third in 1981 along with a SARI for Top Twenty Artist of the Year.[2]