The Path Of Thorns

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In 1968 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a star was born. Musically gifted from a young age, Sarah McLachlan was destined to be a master musician. At five, she wanted to play guitar, but, due to her small size, she learned the ukulele first. Soon Sarah was playing piano and guitar, practicing both diligently. Sarah describes herself as a "hurtin' teenager" with frizzy hair and messed-up teeth who was dissed by everyone. At age 15, her popularity at school soared when it was discovered at a performance of her New Wave band that she was an incredible musician. She continued making New Wave music until Vancouver-based Nettwerk offered her a deal at age seventeen, which she had to hold off on for two years.

Canada's once well-kept secret is now a goddess admired worldwide. She has released six full-length albums with Nettwerk/Arista: Touch, Solace, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, The Freedom Sessions, Rarities, B-Sides, and Other Stuff, and Surfacing. She is also the creator of the Lilith Fair, the summer festival which blew the others to bits in 1997 and 1998.

Even though Lilith Fair received some bad press and Sarah has been criticized, it doesn't seem to phase her. She is a beautiful, open person who has come so far and deserves the recognition she is finally getting. For Sarah, it has been an Uphill Battle, but I think now that she has truly Surfaced and redirected her life by getting married to Ash Sood, releasing her most personal, autobiographic album to date, and establishing her own marked, respected place in the music industry, she is confident with where she stands in life. She is thirty years old now and says that she's never been happier. I'm sure that the years ahead will bring only more happiness to this diligent, devoted artist.