Sarah McLachlan

Born on January 28, 1968 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sarah McLachlan is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Receiving voice, classical piano and guitar lessons as a child, by the time she was 17, Sarah McLachlan was already fronting a short-lived rock band called The October Game whose first concert resulted in her being offered a recording contract with Vancouver-based independent record label Nettwerk. Persuaded by her parents to finish high school and complete a year at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, two years later she moved to Vancouver and finally signed to Nettwerk still not having written a single song. She recorded her first album, Touch, in 1988, which received both critical and commercial success and included the hit song "Vox". Her 1991 album Solace was her mainstream breakthrough in Canada, spawning the hit singles "The Path of Thorns (Terms)" and "Into the Fire". With a dozen of studio albums under her belt, McLachlan - known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range - had sold more than 40 million albums worldwide by 2006 with 1997's Surfacing being her most successful. In 1997 McLachlan married her drummer Ashwin Sood, with whom she has two daughters. They separated in September 2008. In 2010, she released Laws of Illusion, her first studio album in seven years, produced by Pierre Marchand, which reached the top five in Canada and the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart. That same year, she revived the Lilith Fair tour, the all-female music festival she had co-founded in the late 1990s. Her next album, Shine On (2014), reflected themes of loss and renewal following the death of her father; it debuted at No. 2 on the Canadian Albums Chart and earned a Juno nomination for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year. In 2016, she released The Classic Christmas Album, a compilation of holiday recordings, and in 2017, a new compilation, The Essential Sarah McLachlan. She has continued touring internationally, performing both her classic repertoire and orchestral arrangements of her songs. In 2023, she marked the 25th anniversary of her landmark album Surfacing with a celebratory North American tour, before returning to the studio for her thirteenth full-length Better Broken (2025), featuring Katie Gavin on "Reminds Me".

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