1. Sarah McLachlan was born on January 28,1968, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
53 Facts About Sarah McLachlan
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The daughter of Judy James, Sarah McLachlan was raised by her adoptive parents, Jack, an American-born marine biologist, and Dorice Sarah McLachlan.
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Sarah McLachlan played music from a very young age, beginning with the ukulele when she was four.
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Sarah McLachlan studied classical guitar, classical piano, and voice at the Maritime Conservatory of Music through the curriculum of The Royal Conservatory of Music.
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Sarah McLachlan's parents insisted that she finish high school and complete one year of studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design before moving to Vancouver and embarking on a new life as a recording artist.
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Sarah McLachlan finally signed to Nettwerk two years later before having written a single song.
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In 1994, Sarah McLachlan was sued by Uwe Vandrei, an obsessed fan from Ottawa, who alleged that his letters to her had been the basis of the single "Possession".
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Sarah McLachlan married her drummer, Ashwin Sood, in Jamaica in 1997.
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In December 2001, while Sarah McLachlan was pregnant with her first child, her mother died from cancer.
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Sarah McLachlan gave birth to her daughter, India, in Vancouver on April 6,2002.
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Sarah McLachlan announced her separation from Sood in September 2008, and they divorced the same year.
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The signing with Nettwerk prompted Sarah McLachlan to move to Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Still in the spotlight from the album, Sarah McLachlan launched the highly popular Lilith Fair tour.
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Later that year, Sarah McLachlan recorded the Randy Newman song "When She Loved Me" on the Toy Story 2 soundtrack as the off-screen singing voice of the character Jessie.
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Sarah McLachlan released her fifth studio album, Afterglow, in November 2003.
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Sarah McLachlan had contemplated the prospect of losing career momentum during the album's creation and has described its writing process as similar to "extracting blood from a stone".
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In late January 2014, Sarah McLachlan announced the release of her next studio album, Shine On, which was inspired by the death of her father.
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Sarah McLachlan embarked on the Shine On tour across the United States in support of the album.
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Sarah McLachlan won Adult Contemporary Album of the Year for Shine On at the Juno Awards in March 2015 and was additionally nominated for Artist of the Year, but did not win.
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On October 21,2016, Sarah McLachlan released Wonderland, her ninth studio and second Christmas album; it contains interpretations of 13 traditional and contemporary holiday classics.
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In January 2019, Sarah McLachlan was announced as the host of the Juno Awards of 2019.
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Sarah McLachlan participated in an all-star recording of Serena Ryder's 2012 song "What I Wouldn't Do" in 2023.
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In 1996, Sarah McLachlan became frustrated with concert promoters and radio stations that refused to feature two female musicians in a row.
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The next year, Sarah McLachlan founded the Lilith Fair tour, taking Lilith from the medieval Jewish legend that Lilith was Adam's first wife.
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In 1997, Sarah McLachlan co-wrote and provided guest vocals on the Delerium song "Silence" for their album Karma.
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In 2001, Sarah McLachlan provided background vocals, guitar, and piano on the closing track "Love Is" from Stevie Nicks' eighth solo album, Trouble in Shangri-La, in addition to drawing the dragon used for the "S" in Stevie's name on the album cover.
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Sarah McLachlan sang harmonies and played the piano on the song while Sood did the drum work.
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In November 2006, Sarah McLachlan contributed "Ordinary Miracle" to the soundtrack of Charlotte's Web.
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Sarah McLachlan performed the song on The Oprah Winfrey Show; during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade; and at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Sarah McLachlan participated in Dave Stewart's 2007 single "Go Green", alongside Nadirah X, Imogen Heap, Natalie Imbruglia, and others.
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In 2009, Sarah McLachlan provided backing vocals and piano on Susan Enan's song "Bring on the Wonder", which was featured in the television show Bones.
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Enan and Sarah McLachlan included the song on their Plainsong and Laws of Illusion albums respectively.
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On September 10,2011, Sarah McLachlan performed "I Will Remember You" and "Angel" at a ceremony in Stonycreek, Pennsylvania, commemorating the passengers and crew of hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 who fought the hijackers and brought down their airplane on September 11,2001.
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On June 13,2019, Sarah McLachlan sang "O Canada" before Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals.
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Sarah McLachlan has been nominated for 26 Juno Awards and has won twelve.
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Sarah McLachlan was awarded Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1997 for "Building a Mystery" and again in 1999 for the live version of "I Will Remember You".
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Sarah McLachlan won Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1997 for "Last Dance".
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Sarah McLachlan's song "Building a Mystery" came in at 91 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s.
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Sarah McLachlan was awarded the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award in 1998 for advancing the careers of women in music.
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On November 20,2013, Sarah McLachlan was recognized with an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Alberta.
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In 2012, Sarah McLachlan was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
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In June 2018, Sarah McLachlan was awarded the Global Inspiration award at the 2018 SOCAN Awards "for her contributions to the music industry, for her profound impact on music education for Canadian youth through her School of Music, as well as for her acclaim as a songwriter in a career that's spanned 30 years".
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In 2024, Sarah McLachlan was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Sarah McLachlan supported the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals by appearing in advertisements.
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Sarah McLachlan filmed a two-minute advertisement for the organization which featured her song "Angel".
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In 2012, Sarah McLachlan wrote a letter on behalf of PETA to then-Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, protesting that country's annual seal hunt.
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Sarah McLachlan would do another parody of these appeals on Super Bowl LVII on February 12,2023, this time for a commercial for Busch Light.
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Sarah McLachlan contributed the track "Hold On" to the 1993 AIDS-benefit album No Alternative, produced by the Red Hot Organization.
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Sarah McLachlan performed at the Leonard Peltier Defense Fund Benefit Concert on February 12,1997, and went on to release a cover version of "Unchained Melody" created as part of her support for Peltier.
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In early 2005, Sarah McLachlan took part in a star-studded tsunami disaster relief telethon on NBC.
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On July 2,2005, Sarah McLachlan participated in the Philadelphia installment of the Live 8 concerts, where she performed her hit "Angel" with Josh Groban.
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On November 30,2012, Sarah McLachlan lent her support to Kate Winslet's Golden Hat Foundation together with Tim Janis, Loreena McKennitt, Andrea Corr, Hayley Westenra, Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, Dawn Kenney, Jana Mashonee, Amy Petty and a choir etc.
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Sarah McLachlan is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.