“We had really strong, diverse lineups last time, and people had more money to spend.”
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Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan is a Canadian singer-songwriter, ranked in the top echelon of Canadian musicians. As of 2025, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album is Surfacing (1997), for which she won two Grammy Awards and four Juno Awards. She has won three Grammy and twelve Juno Awards in total, and is a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Son…
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Born 28 January 1968 · Q224650
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2026· 12 entries
Variety: Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell on Touring Together and Summer Nights Devoted to ‘Forgetting Madness and Being Part of Something Beautiful’
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - The Kiss (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Rise (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Wilderness (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Long Road Home (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - If This Is the End… (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “It's Jessie's turn to take the reins, let's go cowgirl! #ToyStory5 #toystory”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Only Human (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - One In a Long Line (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Only Way Out Is Through (Official Lyric Video)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - The Last to Go (Official Lyric Video)”.
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2025· 14 entries
Released album “Better Broken”.
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Yahoo: How Sarah McLachlan lost and rediscovered her one-of-a-kind voice
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - In Your Shoes (Audio)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Broken Heart (Audio)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - The Sound That Love Makes (Audio)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Love Beside Me (Audio)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Beautiful Girl (Audio)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Surrender And Certainty (Audio)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Monsters (Audio)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Turn The Lights Down Low (Audio)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Brink Of Destruction (Audio)”.
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Published video “Sarah McLachlan - Flesh And Blood (Audio)”.
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McLachlan made a guest appearance on The Simpsons episode "Estranger Things", where she performed a parody of her song, "When She Loved Me"
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McLachlan appeared in the documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery – The Untold Story, which reflects on the legacy and cultural impact of the festival
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2024· 3 entries
McLachlan was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
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SoM opened a program space in Douglas College in New Westminster
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For the 30th anniversary of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993), with the setlist comprising the album's entire tracklist in addition to other songs from her repertoire; in November 2024, she cancelled the tour due to acute
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2023· 6 entries
People: Sarah McLachlan Is Ready to Get Back on the Road — but Not Without Her Granola (Exclusive)
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Yahoo: Sarah McLachlan celebrates 30 years of 'Fumbling' with new tour: 'I still pinch myself'
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This time in a commercial for Busch Light
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People: Sarah McLachlan Pokes Fun at Her ASPCA Commercial in Busch Light Super Bowl Ad
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New York Post: Sarah McLachlan spoofs her animal cruelty ads in new Super Bowl commercial
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Released album “Daybreak”.
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2022· 2 entries
“s exactly what Lilith Fair was always supposed to achieve.”
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McLachlan again spoofed the ASPCA commercials by doing a promotional spot for the shopping app Bolt
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2019· 1 entry
McLachlan sang "O Canada" before Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals
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2016· 3 entries
McLachlan released Wonderland, her ninth studio and second Christmas album
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Released album “Wonderland”.
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The school expanded to Edmonton, Alberta, operating from MacEwan University
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2015· 4 entries
Released album “The Classic Christmas Album”.
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Awarded Governor General's Performing Arts Award (2015).
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Received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts
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For "Shine On" and the same award in 2017 for "Wonderland"
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2014· 4 entries
Released album “Shine On”.
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McLachlan released the studio album Shine On, which was inspired by the 2010 death of her father
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McLachlan parodied her ASPCA appeals in an Audi commercial featuring a "Doberhuahua" dog gnawing on the neck of her guitar
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When asked what religion she practices, she answered, "I don't adhere to any particular religion
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “The Essential Sarah McLachlan”.
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Kiwanis International presented McLachlan with the Kiwanis International World Service Medal to recognize her for founding the Sarah McLachlan School of Music, a free music school for at-risk youth in Vancouver, British
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And was named Honorary Fellow at Douglas College in 2025
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2012).
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McLachlan was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame
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Also on behalf of PETA, she wrote to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper, asking him to end the seal hunt
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2011· 3 entries
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
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Released album “Original Album Classics”.
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McLachlan wrote a private letter on behalf of PETA to Canada’s minister of international trade, urging him to take action in the World Trade Organization's hearings on Canada's seal hunt
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Laws of Illusion”.
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2009· 4 entries
Awarded Juno Humanitarian Award (2009).
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And with one from Simon Fraser University in 2011
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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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Was presented with the Juno Humanitarian Award
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan”.
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Released album “Rarities, B‐Sides, and Other Stuff, Volume 2”.
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2007· 3 entries
Released album “Spotlight Influences”.
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The provincial government granted $500,000 in funding for the outreach program
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Released album “Live From Etown: 2006 Christmas Special”.
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “Wintersong”.
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The live album Mirrorball was re-released as Mirrorball: The Complete Concert
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Filmed a two-minute advertisement for the organization, which featured her song "Angel"
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “Bloom: Remix Album”.
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Released album “iTunes Originals”.
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Released album “Fumbling Toward Ecstacy Live”.
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2004· 5 entries
Released album “Afterglow Live”.
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Awarded Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year for Afterglow (2004).
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Awarded Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year for World on Fire (2004).
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Released ep “Live Acoustic EP”.
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Released album “Retrospective”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “Afterglow”.
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Appeared as a celebrity NPC in The Sims Superstar
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Released album “VH1 Storytellers”.
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2002· 2 entries
Received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and, in 2012, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
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Using money that she had earned from the Lilith Fair tour to give children access to music instruction
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Remixed”.
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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 t
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Was inducted to the Order of British Columbia
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded Juno International Achievement Award (2000).
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Won the International Achievement Award and in 2004, won Pop Album of the Year for Afterglow and shared the Songwriter of the Year award with Marchand for the singles "Fallen", "World on Fire", and "Stupid"
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And McLachlan performed it at the ceremony, but did not win
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1999· 6 entries
Released album “Mirrorball”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (1999).
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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 she made to women's shelters across Canada
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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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McLachlan was sued by Darryl Neudorf, a producer and former drummer for 54-40 who, when McLachlan first arrived in Vancouver, was hired by Nettwerk to help her write songs
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Released album “Surfacing / Mirrorball”.
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1998· 10 entries
Awarded Juno Award for Single of the Year (1998).
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Awarded Juno Award for Album of the Year for Surfacing (1998).
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Awarded Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year for Building a Mystery (1998).
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Released album “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy and The Freedom Sessions”.
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Released album “Songbird”.
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"Angel" featured in the motion picture City of Angels; that soundtrack reached number one on the Billboard 200
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For "Building a Mystery" and again in 2000 for the live version of "I Will Remember You"
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Surfacing won the Best Album award, and "Building a Mystery" won Single of the Year
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And 1999 before the tour was discontinued
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For advancing the careers of women in music
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1997· 7 entries
Released album “Surfacing”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (1997).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance (1997).
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Released album “A Complete Mystery”.
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Released ep “Coalition of Independent Music Stores Sampler”.
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McLachlan released Surfacing
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McLachlan co-wrote and provided guest vocals on the Delerium song "Silence" for their album Karma
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1996· 3 entries
– went by the name "Lilith Fair" and included performances by McLachlan, Cole, Lisa Loeb, and Michelle McAdorey
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Released album “Rarities, B-Sides, & Other Stuff”.
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McLachlan became frustrated with concert promoters and radio stations that refused to feature two female musicians in a row
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “The Freedom Sessions”.
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McLachlan released The Freedom Sessions, which was alternative versions of the songs from Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
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Released ep “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Live”.
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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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1993· 1 entry
Released album “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released ep “Live”.
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Awarded Juno Award for Video of the Year (1992).
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Her video for "Into the Fire" won the Juno for Best Video
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Solace”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Touch”.
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1968· 2 entries
Born 1968-01-28.
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In Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was raised as the youngest of three adopted children by Dorice McLachlan and her husband Jack, a marine biologist
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