Sarah McLachlan

Albums. It also had a very successful run on American urban radio stations. Singles. Most recently, Musiq has released the singles and videos "forthenight" and "whoknows" from his third LP, Soulstar. "forthenight" has been one of VH1 Soul's most played videos of 2004 so far. [1] (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/mar/15itunes.html) Sarah has also sold an estimated 30 million albums world wide. Once again, its video got heavy play on MTV2 and VH1 Soul, as well as on MTV Jams. McLachlan's song "The Path of Thorns" was the 50,000,000th song downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store. In late 2002, Musiq contributed guest vocals to "Break You Off", the first single from The Roots' Phrenology album.

On a number of occasions, McLachlan has also found herself in the news for other reasons:. Both videos also got substantial play during the year on VH1 Soul. It ran for 4 hours and aired live on CTV across Canada. He had continued urban and MTV2 success with its singles, "halfcrazy" and "dontchange", the former of which was one of the most played music videos on MTV2 in the summer of 2002 and during the year overall. The show was the brainchild of Sarah McLachlan's manager, Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk. In 2002, he released his sophomore album, Juslisen (read: "Just Listen"), as simply Musiq. The show also featured a performance by the Sarah McLachlan Musical Outreach Choir & Percussion Ensemble; a children's choir and percussion band from the Vancouver outreach program that Sarah provides funding for. The concert was titled One World: The Concert for Tsunami Relief, and raised approximately $3.6 million for several Canadian aid agencies working in South and South-East Asia. His singles also received moderate airplay on urban and urban contemporary radio stations.

On January 29th Sarah was a headliner for a benefit concert in Vancouver along with other Canadian superstars such as Avril Lavigne. The singles "Just Friends (Sunny)", "Love", and "Girl Next Door" received exposure in America mainly on the more underground music video network, MTV2, as well as on BET. In early 2005 McLachlan took part in a star-studded Tsunami disaster relief telethon on NBC. Musiq did much of his own songwriting, and most of the record was produced by the A Touch of Jazz production company, headed by Jazzy Jeff. She had already completed three-quarters of the Afterglow record production. He released his debut album, Aijuswanasang (read: "I Just Want to Sing"), in 2000, which was well-received by critics and audiences. Sarah gave birth to a daughter, named India, on April 6, 2002, in Vancouver. He moved back to Philadelphia as a teenager, and began plans for a career in music.

During Sarah's hiatus in her recording career, she lost her mother to cancer in December, 2001, while Sarah herself was pregnant. Musiq was born in Philadelphia and grew up with his family--including eight brothers and sisters--in Putnam County, Georgia. McLachlan also funds an outreach program in Vancouver providing music education for inner city children. Musiq Soulchild (born Talib Johnson on September 16, 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African American neo soul and R&B artist, one of the most popular artists on the Def Soul label. Since 2001, he has gone by simply Musiq, dropping the "Soulchild" from his moniker. Besides being a successful recording artist, Musiq is notable for his disregard for normal rules of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, as can be seen by the titles of his singles and his albums. In 1999, she 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. 2004: "whoknows" (US #65). Through her career, she has also received many other awards, primarily in recognition of her efforts in launching Lilith Fair. 2003: "forthenight" (US #52).

Known for the emotional sound of her ballads, some of her popular songs include "Angel," "Building a Mystery," "Adia," "Possession," and "I Will Remember You." Her best selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won multiple Grammy Awards and four Juno Awards (Canada's equivalent to the Grammy's). 2002: "dontchange" (US #17). She returned to public life and touring with her 2003 album release, Afterglow, although she has no current plans to resurrect Lilith Fair. 2002: "halfcrazy" (US #16). She participated along with four other Canadian artists, Bryan Adams, Jann Arden, Barenaked Ladies and Chantal Kreviazuk. 2001: "Girl Next Door" (US #85). She did, however, participate in the 2002 British Columbia Cancer Foundation Benefit Concert in memory of cancer victim Michele Bourbonnais. 2000: "Love" (US #24).

Lilith Fair debuted in Vancouver that same year, after which McLachlan began an extended period away from recording or touring. 2000: "Just Friends (Sunny)" (US #31). On February 7, 1997, she married Ashwin Sood, her longtime drummer, in Negril, Jamaica. 2003: Soulstar. She was awarded the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award in 1998 for advancing the careers of women in music. 2002: Juslisen. Sarah has been extensively profiled by media including cover stories for Rolling Stone, Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly. 2000: Aijuswanasang.

It was the most successful all-female music festival in history, one of the biggest music festivals of the 90's, and helped launch the careers of several well known female artists. The Sarah-founded Lilith Fair tour brought together 2 million people over its 3 year history and raised more than $7 million for charities. Over the next two years, it quietly became Sarah's international breakthrough as well, scaling the charts in a number of countries and setting the stage for 1997's Surfacing, which debuted at the top of the charts amid the hype around Lilith Fair. 1993's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was an immediate smash hit in Canada.

Her 1991 album, Solace, was her mainstream breakthrough in Canada, spawning the hit singles "The Path of Thorns (Terms)" and "Into the Fire". There she recorded the first of her albums, Touch, in 1988, which received both critical and commercial success and included the hit song "Vox". The signing prompted McLachlan to move to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was signed before she had penned a single song.

In 1988, she was the first artist signed by the independent Canadian record label Nettwerk. Her high school yearbook claimed that she was "destined to become a famous rock star.". When she was just 17 years old, she fronted a new wave band, October Game. As a child, she took voice lessons, along with studies in classical piano and guitar.

Sarah McLachlan was born and adopted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is widely recognized for founding Lilith Fair, a tour which showcased female musicians in the late 1990s. Sarah Ann McLachlan (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Afterglow Live (2004)-audio CD plus DVD.

Live Acoustic (2004). Afterglow (2003). Remixed (2001) [US Release in (2003)]. Mirrorball (1999).

Surfacing (1997). Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff (1996). The Freedom Sessions (1994) - one of the first enhanced CDs ever released, combining music with CD-ROM material. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993).

Live EP (1992). Solace (1991). Touch [Reissue] (1989). Touch (1988).

World on Fire (2004). Stupid (2004). Fallen (2003). Angel (1999).

Adia (1998). Sweet Surrender (1998). Building a Mystery (1997). I Will Remember You (1995).

Good Enough (1994). Hold On (1994). Possession (1993). Drawn to the Rhythm (1992).

Into the Fire (1991). The Path of Thorns (Terms) (1991). Steaming (1990). Vox (1988).

Link (http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicSarahMcLachlan/home_trial.html). The judge in this suit ultimately ruled in McLachlan's favour. Finally, in 1999, McLachlan and Nettwerk were sued by Darryl Neudorf, a Vancouver musician (and onetime member of 54-40) who alleged that he had made a significant and uncredited contribution to the songwriting on Touch. President Bill Clinton, when her song "Do What You Have To Do" was cited in Kenneth Starr's report as the subject of a letter from Lewinsky to Clinton.

In 1998, McLachlan found herself vicariously connected to the Monica Lewinsky scandal surrounding former U.S. This lawsuit never came to trial, however, as the plaintiff committed suicide before the trial began. In 1994, she was sued by Uwe Vandrei, an obsessed fan from Ottawa, Ontario, who alleged that his letters to her had been the basis of her hit single "Possession".