Sarah McLachlan

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. Singles. Musical Youth's members included:. [1] (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/mar/15itunes.html) Sarah has also sold an estimated 30 million albums world wide. The Grant brothers remain involved in music, while Seaton released a solo set in 1989 before going on to form his own band, XMY. McLachlan's song "The Path of Thorns" was the 50,000,000th song downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store. Plans to re-form were scotched when Patrick Waite, who had gone on to a career of juvenile crime, died of natural causes while awaiting a court appearance on drug charges.

On a number of occasions, McLachlan has also found herself in the news for other reasons:. A revival of Desmond Dekker's "007" saw them back in the Top 30, but after one final hit with "Sixteen", they fell from commercial grace and subsequently split up in 1985 when Seaton left the band. It ran for 4 hours and aired live on CTV across Canada. Minor successes with "Heartbreaker" and "Tell Me Why" were succeeded by a surprise collaboration with Donna Summer on the UK Top 20 hit "Unconditional Love". The show was the brainchild of Sarah McLachlan's manager, Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk. The catchy follow-up, "Youth Of Today", also reached the UK Top 20 and early in 1983 "Never Gonna Give You Up" climbed to number 6. 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. A US Top 10 hit also followed.

On January 29th Sarah was a headliner for a benefit concert in Vancouver along with other Canadian superstars such as Avril Lavigne. The infectious enthusiasm of the group's performance captured the public's imagination and propelled the record to number 1 in the UK charts. In early 2005 McLachlan took part in a star-studded Tsunami disaster relief telethon on NBC. Based on the Mighty Diamonds" "Pass The Kouchie" (a song about marijuana), the title had been subtly altered to feature the patois "dutchie" (literally a "cooking pot"). She had already completed three-quarters of the Afterglow record production. During the winter of 1982, the group issued one of the fastest-selling singles of the year in "Pass The Dutchie". Sarah gave birth to a daughter, named India, on April 6, 2002, in Vancouver. By that time, founding father Frederick Waite had backed down to be replaced by Dennis Seaton as lead singer.

During Sarah's hiatus in her recording career, she lost her mother to cancer in December, 2001, while Sarah herself was pregnant. An appearance on BBC disc jockey John Peel's evening show brought further attention to the group and they were signed to MCA Records. McLachlan also funds an outreach program in Vancouver providing music education for inner city children. Although schoolboys, the group managed to secure gigs at certain Birmingham pubs and released a single, "Political"/"Generals", on local label 021 Records. 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. The latter pair's father, Frederick Waite, was a former member of Jamaican group the Techniques, and sang lead with Junior at the start of the group's career in the late 1970s. Through her career, she has also received many other awards, primarily in recognition of her efforts in launching Lilith Fair. This pop/reggae-influenced group featured two sets of brothers, Kelvin and Michael Grant and Junior and Patrick Waite.

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). Musical Youth formed in 1979 at Duddeston Manor School, Birmingham, England. She returned to public life and touring with her 2003 album release, Afterglow, although she has no current plans to resurrect Lilith Fair. Different Style (MCA). She participated along with four other Canadian artists, Bryan Adams, Jann Arden, Barenaked Ladies and Chantal Kreviazuk. The Youth Of Today (MCA). She did, however, participate in the 2002 British Columbia Cancer Foundation Benefit Concert in memory of cancer victim Michele Bourbonnais. Anthology (Musical Youth) (MCA).

Lilith Fair debuted in Vancouver that same year, after which McLachlan began an extended period away from recording or touring. Junior Waite. On February 7, 1997, she married Ashwin Sood, her longtime drummer, in Negril, Jamaica. 1969, d. February 18, 1993. She was awarded the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award in 1998 for advancing the careers of women in music. Patrick Waite - b. Sarah has been extensively profiled by media including cover stories for Rolling Stone, Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Kelvin Grant.

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. Michael Grant. The Sarah-founded Lilith Fair tour brought together 2 million people over its 3 year history and raised more than $7 million for charities. Dennis Seaton. 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".