GAYLE is an American singer and songwriter. After signing with Atlantic Records and Arthouse Entertainment, she released her hit single "ABCDEFU" in 2021, which charted worldwide, including reaching number one in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and on the Billboard Global 200 and earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Song of the Year.
On March 9, 2023, Gayle released the standalone single, "Everybody Hates Me". She served as an opening act on multiple shows of the US leg of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, and on the European leg of Pink's Summer Carnival tour; from March to August and June to July 2023, respectively. She also was a supporting act on the second European leg of the Summer Carnival, in June and July 2024. On April 14, 2023, Lauren Spencer-Smith's "Fantasy", a collaboration with Gayle and Em Beihold, was released as the sixth single from Spencer's album, Mirror (2023). GAYLE co-wrote Kelly Clarkson's 2023 single "Me", which was released on the same day. On May 5, 2023, she released "Don't Call Me Pretty". Gayle performed and co-wrote "Butterflies"—a re-titled "bedroom-pop" rework of the song "Butterfly" by Crazy Town, which it also interpolates—for Barbie the Album, which was released in July.

photo By Justin Higuchi - Gayle @ El Rey 10/25/2023, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=142970348

In August, she released the single "Leave Me for Dead" Her next song, "I Don't Sleep as Good as I Used to", followed on October 6. GAYLE embarked on her debut headlining tour, the Scared but Trying Tour. It commenced on October 17 in Tampa, Florida and ended on November 15, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. Also in November, she released the compilation album Hello This Is the Setlist for My Tour.

Her first release of 2024 was "Kinda Smacks" with Royal & the Serpent in February. From May to June, she conducted her short tour, the My First Time (in Asia) Tour, which consisted of four shows in Asia, including her slot at the Seoul Jazz Festirea. On June 28, Gayle released the single "Internet Baby".