Sarah McLachlan

Sarah McLachlan (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she signed with Nettwerk Records as a teenager and released her debut album, *Touch*, in 1988. She gained wider recognition in the 1990s with *Fumbling Towards Ecstasy* (1993) and the multi-platinum *Surfacing* (1997), which produced major singles including “Building a Mystery” and “Angel.” McLachlan has won multiple Grammy Awards and Juno Awards. In 1997 she founded Lilith Fair, a touring festival showcasing women artists, which ran through 1999 and returned in 2010.