Has been playing instruments, including the piano and guitars, since the age of 5. Started Lilith Fair, the first all female performer concert tour. It lasted 3 summers from 1997 to 1999 and toured North America. Was the first artist signed to Nettwerk recording label. She was 17 at the time.
Is a recipient of the Order of Canada
Sarah gave birth to her first child, daughter India Ann Sushil , on April 6, 2002.
Married in Negril, Jamaica.
Nominated for a 2003 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the song "Fallen".
Albums: Touch (1988) Solace (1991) Live (1992) Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993) The Freedom Sessions (1994) Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff (1996) Surfacing (1997) Mirrorball (1999) Remixed (2001) Afterglow (2003)
Ranked #69 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
Her 2004 Afterglow Tour will be her most extensive tour yet, hitting the USA, Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, France, Spain, Netherlands and Norway.
Her husband has played drums for her since 1991
The first instrument she learned to play was the ukulele.
Born on January 28th, 1968, Sarah McLachlan has reached a level of artistic maturity that most artists take years to attain. Since releasing Touch in the late 1980s, the Halifax, Nova Scotia native has explored her own unique musical interests, indifferent to current trends and fads. McLachlan's intimate vocals and moody, evocative songs convey a passionate honesty rarely found in most of today's music.
McLachlan studied classical guitar, piano and voice as a child, and at the age of 17 was discovered by Nettwerk Records at her first performance as part of a New Wave band. Reluctant parents kept McLachlan from signing her first record deal for two years. After relocating to Vancouver, McLachlan began writing music for her first album, Touch. The album went gold in Canada and McLachlan was suddenly rocketed to stardom and hailed as that year's most exciting and important new artist.
After an extensive tour with her first band, McLachlan returned to the studio to record Solace, which was released in 1992. Solace succeeded both critically and commercially and catapulted McLachlan to international prominence.
The release of Solace was followed by an exhaustive 16-month tour after which McLachlan returned to Vancouver to begin writing songs for her album, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.
The hit single from that album, "Hold On," was inspired by the documentary, A Promise Kept, about a woman whose fiance discovers he has AIDS. Overwhelmed by the woman's strength and selflessness, McLachlan wrote the song in a single day. It is an unsentimental portrait of a woman's courage in the face of adversity. "Hold On" appeared on the No Alternative compilation album, the proceeds of which go to support AIDS research. McLachlan also contributed the single "I Will Remember You" to the soundtrack of the Brothers McMullen.
In 1997 McLachlan released her fourth album, Surfacing, which contained the hits "Building a Mystery" and "Sweet Surrender." She also took time out to organize and headline the acclaimed Lilith Fair, which focused on emerging women singer-songwriters and became the most successful tour of the summer of 1997.
McLachlan spent the summer of '98 back on the road with the second Lilith Fair tour. In June 1999 she released Mirrorball, a live album culling material from Lilith. Mirroball received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Album.
