[3] Wintergate started writing music and playing guitar as a teenager, performing at local folk festivals and other venues.
[10] After a couple of years of hiatus and traveling on tour with her husband Greg Attonito, Shanti partnered with Canadian producer Chris Wardman (Blue Peter) and engineer Brad Haehnel[11][unreliable source?]
[16] In 2007 Wintergate and Atonnito toured in locales such as San Francisco doing book readings,[17] also singing the words with guitar.
[18] In 2011, Wintergate and Attonito jointly exhibited their art at a month-long show in Seattle, Washington, celebrating their first opening with a mix of acoustic covers and originals from each of their catalogs.
[2] Wintergate is in the lineup "punk rock authors" to be featured in book signings at the It's Not Dead Festival in late 2015, which is put on in California by Kevin Lyman of the Warped tour.
[29] She is married to and often collaborates with Greg Attonito, lead singer of the New Jersey punk-rock band, The Bouncing Souls.