O'Neill began her career in the 1970s in her home country of New Zealand, then gained major success in Australia with the hit ‘Words’ and the subsequent singles ‘How Do You Talk to Boys?’, ‘Losing You’, and ‘Maybe’.
The early 1980s proved her most commercially successful period, with the Foreign Affairs album in 1983 spawning her biggest hit ‘Maxine’. A legal battle with her then record company Sony Music caused a delay in her career. In 1988 Sharon returned with arguably her best album (if under-rated at the time) Danced in the Fire on Polygram Records which featured some biographical songs about the legal wrangles with Sony.
O'Neill's last album of new material, Edge of Winter, was released in 1990. A mature work, two singles were taken from this album, ‘Satin Sheets’ and ‘Poster Girl’, both of which failed to find chart success.
She all but disappeared from the music scene until 2001 when she toured as a guest artist with New Zealand female act, When the Cat's Away. In 2005 she toured Australia as a support act for Leo Sayer and for the first time a comprehensive collection of her greatest hits was released on CD. In 2006 O'Neill again toured Australia supporting Leo Sayer.
She wrote ‘Sweet And Sour’, the title song for the ABC series, which was a Top 20 hit for The Takeaways in 1984.
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