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Sarah Mclachlan - "We all begin with good intent "
Sarah
Mclachlan, vocals, piano
Sarah
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Mirrorball, Afterglow, Surfacing, Touch
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Fallen
4:19
World on Fire 3:57
Angel 5:10
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Sarah Ann McLachlan (born January 28, 1968) is a
Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. She is widely recognized for
founding Lilith Fair, a tour which showcased female musicians in the late
1990s.
Sarah McLachlan was born and adopted in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a child,
Ssarah took voice lessons, along with studies in classical piano and guitar.
When Sarah was just 17 years old, she fronted a new wave band, October
Game. Her high school yearbook claimed that she was "destined to
become a famous rock star."
In 1988, Sarah Mclachlan was the first artist signed by the independent
Canadian record label Nettwerk. She was signed before she had penned a
single song. The signing prompted McLachlan to move to Vancouver, British
Columbia. There Sarah recorded the first of her albums, Touch, in 1988,
which received both critical and commercial success and included the hit
song "Vox". McLachlan's 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 for McLachlan
in Canada. Over the next two years, it quietly became Sarah'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 Sarah-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.
Sarah has been extensively profiled by media including cover stories for
Rolling Stone, Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly. She was awarded
the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award in 1998 for advancing the careers
of women in music.
On February 7, 1997, Sarah Mclachlan married Ashwin Sood, her longtime
drummer, in Negril, Jamaica. Lilith Fair debuted in Vancouver that same
year, after which McLachlan began an extended period away from recording
or touring. Sarah did, however, participate in the 2002 British Columbia
Cancer Foundation Benefit Concert in memory of cancer victim Michele Bourbonnais.
She participated along with four other Canadian artists, Bryan Adams,
Jann Arden, Barenaked Ladies, and Chantal Kreviazuk.
Sarah McLachlan performing for Good Morning America in 1998. She returned
to public life and touring with her 2003 album release, Afterglow, although
she has no current plans to resurrect Lilith Fair.
Known for the emotional sound of her ballads, some of Sarah Mclachlan's
popular songs include "Angel," "Building a Mystery",
"Adia", "Possession", and "I Will Remember You".
Her best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which Mclachlan 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. 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
Sarah made to women's shelters across Canada. McLachlan also funds an
outreach program in Vancouver providing music education for inner city
children.
During Sarah's hiatus in her recording career, she lost her mother to
cancer in December, 2001, while Sarah herself was pregnant. Sarah gave
birth to a daughter, named India, on April 6, 2002, in Vancouver. She
had already completed three-quarters of the Afterglow record production.
In early 2005 Sarah Mclachlan took part in a star-studded tsunami disaster
relief telethon on NBC. On January 29 Sarah was a headliner for a benefit
concert in Vancouver along with other Canadian superstars such as Avril
Lavigne. The show also featured a performance by the Sarah McLachlan Musical
Outreach Choir & Percussion Ensemble, a children's choir and percussion
band from the Vancouver outreach program that Sarah provides funding for.
The concert was titled One World: The Concert for Tsunami Relief, and
raised approximately $3.6 million for several Canadian aid agencies working
in south and southeast Asia. The show was the brainchild of Sarah McLachlan's
manager, Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk. It ran for four hours and aired
live on CTV across Canada.
On a number of occasions, Sarah Mclachlan has also found herself in the
news for other reasons:
In 1994, she was sued by Uwe Vandrei, an obsessed fan from Ottawa, Ontario,
who alleged that his letters to her had been the basis of her hit single
"Possession". This lawsuit never came to trial, however, as
the plaintiff committed suicide before the trial began.
In 1998, Sarah Mclachlan found herself vicariously connected to the Monica
Lewinsky scandal surrounding former U.S. President Bill Clinton, when
her song "Do What You Have to Do" was cited in Kenneth Starr's
report as the subject of a letter from Lewinsky to Clinton.
Finally, in 1999, McLachlan and Nettwerk were sued by Darryl Neudorf,
a Vancouver musician (and onetime member of 54-40) who alleged that he
had made a significant and uncredited contribution to the songwriting
on Touch. The judge in this suit ultimately ruled in McLachlan's favour.
McLachlan's song "The Path of Thorns" was the 50 millionth song
downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Sarah has also sold an estimated 30 million albums world wide. After McLachlan's
2005 tour she plans to take another hiatus and have another baby.
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