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 and won the 1972 South African Recording Industry Award for Best Song of the Year. 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.
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.