Sarah McLachlan

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Ricardo Khayatte wrote:

01/04/08 13:38:19

"Fumbling" is still my favorite album!!!

Neal Greenblatt wrote:

03/12/07 15:27:19

Sarah M has had a profound influence on how I feel about music. There are few songwriters who evoke the same emotions I feel when I listen to her music. She makes me proud to be a Canadian music lover!!

Malloreigh wrote:

01/23/07 18:28:02

Sarah McLachlan is epic...

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Bio: Sarah McLachlan is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter.

Known for the emotional sound of her ballads, some of her popular songs include "Angel", "Building a Mystery", "Adia", "Possession", "I Will Remember You" and "Into the Fire". Her best-selling album to date is "Surfacing", for which she won multiple Grammy Awards and four Juno Awards (Canada's equivalent to the Grammy's).

Through her career, she has also received many other awards, primarily in recognition of her efforts in launching Lilith Fair, a tour which showcased female musicians in the late 1990s. In 1999, she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of her successful recording career, her role in Lilith Fair, and the charitable donations she made to women's shelters across Canada. McLachlan also funds an outreach program in Vancouver that provides music education for inner city children. In 2001, she was awarded the Order of British Columbia.

Sarah McLachlan was born on the 28th of January, 1968, and was adopted in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a child, she took voice lessons, along with studies in classical piano and guitar. When she was 17 years old, and still a student at Queen Elizabeth High School, she fronted a short-lived rock band called "The October Game". Her high school yearbook claimed that she was "destined to become a famous rock star".

Following "The October Game's" first concert at Dalhousie University opening for Moev, McLachlan was offered a recording contract with Vancouver based independent record label Nettwerk by Moev's Mark Jowett. McLachlan's parents convinced her to finish her studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design before embarking on a new life as a recording artist, and McLachlan finally signed to Nettwerk two years later before having written a single song.

The signing prompted McLachlan to move to Vancouver, British Columbia. There she recorded the first of her albums, "Touch", in 1988, which received both critical and commercial success and included the hit song "Vox". During this period she also contributed to an album by Moev, and embarked on her first national concert tour as an opening act for The Grapes of Wrath.

Her 1991 album, "Solace", was her mainstream breakthrough in Canada, spawning the hit singles "The Path of Thorns (Terms)" and "Into the Fire".

1993's "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" was an immediate smash hit in Canada. From her Nettwerk connection, the piano version of her song "Possession" was included on the first "Due South" television series soundtrack in 1996. Over the next two years, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy quietly became McLachlan's international breakthrough as well, scaling the charts in a number of countries and setting the stage for 1997's "Surfacing", which debuted at the top of the charts amid the hype around Lilith Fair.

The McLachlan-founded Lilith Fair tour brought together 2 million people over its three-year history and raised more than $7 million for charities. It was the most successful all-female music festival in history, one of the biggest music festivals of the 1990s, and helped launch the careers of several well-known female artists. [ more ]

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