Sarah McLachlan

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and later based in Vancouver after signing with Nettwerk in the late 1980s, Sarah McLachlan developed a songwriting style situated between folk-pop, pop rock and adult contemporary, with a marked taste for piano ballads, airy melodies and atmospheric arrangements. After a stint in the band October Game, she released Touch in 1988 and Solace in 1991, before broadening her audience with Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993) and Surfacing (1997). Her long-standing collaboration with producer Pierre Marchand accompanied this evolution toward a broader, more intimate and textured sound. McLachlan also appears in other contexts, notably on Delerium's "Silence", at the crossroads of singer-songwriter pop and electronic music. In the late 1990s she founded Lilith Fair, a North American tour dedicated to female artists. Her subsequent discography includes Afterglow (2003), Wintersong (2006), Laws of Illusion (2010), Shine On (2014), Wonderland (2016) and Better Broken (2025).