Sarah McLachlan
Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBCis a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2009, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awardsand four Juno Awards. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians on an unprecedented scale. The Lilith Fair concert tours took place from 1997 to...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth28 January 1968
CountryCanada
With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.
Why are there so many songs about ravens, and what's on the other side? Rainbows are visions, but only illusions. Rainbows have nothing to hide
Yet we have a great opportunity and great platform to talk about a lot of issues that are important to me and a lot of us as women and human beings.
Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can's say and you just walk away... I grieve in my condition for I cannot find the words to say I need you so.
I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.
Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.
We asked all sorts of people from all different walks of music and this is who we got this year, who said yes. I think music crosses barriers and boundaries. If it's good, it's good. We're after good music.
Mother can't you see I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me might not be right for you but it's right for me...
I thought, 'Well, why don't I get some of the women who I've had open up for me before and some artists that I really admire and respect. Let's ask them to do a few shows.'
We're just here to put on a great musical show and I think any social or political issues are secondary, although very important, because it is a music festival first and foremost,
Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
We plan to have three years and try not to repeat artists in the same marketplaces. I have a hard time thinking of what's going be going on next week, much less two years from now. We're going to sit down after '99 and reassess things, probably take a year off.
There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.
I'm not online. I'm not on Facebook much. I don't connect that way.