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1988 Touch

1991 Solace

1993 Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

1997 Surfacing

2003 Afterglow

2006 Wintersong

Actress


"Big Sky" (1997) TV mini-series

"Poltergeist: The Legacy" (1 episode, 1996)


Producer


Lilith on Top (2001) (executive producer)

Sarah McLachlan: Mirrorball (1999) (executive producer)


As Herself


The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards (2009) (TV)

2008 American Music Awards (2008) (TV)

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (1 episode, 2008)

"Tavis Smiley" (1 episode, 2008)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (5 episodes, 1998-2008)

"Private Sessions" (1 episode, 2008)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien (3 episodes, 2004-2008)

Live with Regis and Kathie Lee (3 episodes, 2004-2008)

"NewNowNext PopLab" (2008) TV series

"Canada A.M." (1 episode, 2006)

Good Morning America (3 episodes, 2004-2006)

The Oprah Winfrey Show (1 episode, 2006)

Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (3 episodes, 2005-2006)

2006 East Coast Music Awards (2006) (TV)

DMC: My Adoption Journey (2006) (TV)

Christmas in Rockefeller Center (2006) (TV)

2005 American Music Awards (2005) (TV)

Live 8 (2005) (TV)

The View (2 episodes, 2003-2005)

"Monday Report" (1 episode, 2005)

Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope (2005) (TV)

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (1 episode, 2004)

Sarah McLachlan: Afterglow Live (2004)

"I Love the '90s" (2004) TV series

Rove Live (1 episode, 2004)

Parkinson (1 episode, 2004)

The 33rd Annual Juno Awards (2004) (TV)

"Today with Des and Mel" (1 episode, 2004)

Danish Music Awards 2004 (2004) (TV)

The 46th Annual Grammy Awards 2004 (TV)

"The Sharon Osbourne Show" (1 episode, 2004)

Sarah McLachlan: Custom Concert (2003) (TV)

The Nick at Nite Holiday Special (2003) (TV)

"Intimate Portrait" (1 episode, 2003)

Late Show with David Letterman (2 episodes, 1997-2003)

"Life and Times" (1 episode, 2003)

Lilith on Top (2001)

The 72nd Annual The Academy Awards 2000 (TV)

Santana: Supernatural Live (2000)

A Supernatural Evening with Carlos Santana (2000) (TV)

The 1999 Billboard Music Awards (1999) (TV)

Sarah McLachlan: Mirrorball (1999)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show (2 episodes, 1997-1999)

Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration (1999) (TV)

Sarah McLachlan: Video Collection 1989-1998 (1998)

The X-Files Movie Special (1998) (TV)

"Sen kväll med Luuk" (1 episode, 1998)

Brewery Creek (1998) (TV)

Divas Live: An Honors Concert for VH1 Save the Music (1998) (TV)

"Ellen" (1 episode, 1998)

The 40th Annual The Grammy Awards 1998 (TV)

"VH1 Storytellers" (1 episode, 1998)

Saturday Night Live (1 episode, 1997)

"Behind the Music" (2 episodes, 1997)

Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music (1997) (TV)

1996 MLB All-Star Game (1996) (TV)

Sarah McLachlan: Video Collection 1989-1994 (1995)

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Live (1994)

Later with Jools Holland (1 episode, 1994)

Billboard Music Awards


1999 "Angel" Top Adult Contemporary Track Won


The Grammy Awards


1999 Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Best Alternative Music Album Nominated

1998 "Building A Mystery" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Won

1998 "Last Dance" Best Pop Instrumental Performance Won

1998 Surfacing Best Pop Album Nominated

1999 "Adia" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Nominated

2000 "I Will Remember You (Live)" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Won

2000 Mirrorball Best Pop Album Nominated

2000 "Possession (Live)" Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Nominated

2001 "The Difficult Kind" (w/ Sheryl Crow) Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Nominated

2004 "Fallen" Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Nominated

2005 Afterglow Best Pop Vocal Album Nominated

2006 "World On Fire" Best Short Form Video Nominated

2007 Wintersong Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Nominated


Juno Awards


1992 Sarah McLachlan Female Vocalist of the Year Nominated

1992 "Into the Fire" Best Music Video Won

1994 Sarah McLachlan Female Vocalist of the Year Nominated

1994 Songwriter of the Year Nominated

1995 Sarah McLachlan Entertainer of the Year Nominated

1995 Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Album of the Year Nominated

1998 Surfacing Album of the Year Won

1998 Building A Mystery Single of the Year Won

1998 Sarah McLachlan Songwriter of the Year Won

1998 Female Vocalist of the Year Won

1999 "Adia" Single of the Year Nominated

1999 "Sweet Surrender" Best Music Video Won

2000 Sarah McLachlan International Achievement Award Won

2004 Afterglow Album of the Year Nominated

2004 Pop Album of the Year Won

2004 Sarah McLachlan Artist of the Year Nominated

2004 Songwriter of the Year Won

2004 Juno Fan Choice Award Nominated

2005 Juno Fan Choice Award Nominated

2007 Juno Fan Choice Award Nominated

2007 Wintersong Pop Album of the Year Nominated


MTV Video Music Awards


2005 "World On Fire" Breakthrough Video Nominated


MuchMusic Video Awards


1994 "Possession" Favourite Female Video Nominated

1994 Favourite Adult Contemporary Video Won

1997 "Building A Mystery" People's Choice: Favourite Canadian Video Won

1999 "Angel" Nominated

2004 "Fallen" MuchMoreMusic Award Won

2005 "World On Fire" Nominated


Western Canadian Music Awards


2004 Sarah McLachlan Entertainer of the Year Nominated

2004 Songwriter of the Year Nominated

2004 Afterglow Outstanding Pop Recording Nominated

2005 Afterglow Live Won

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Canadian singer/songwriter Sarah McLachlan rose to international prominence during the mid-'90s, thanks to her expressive voice and a series of increasingly mature albums. Toward the end of the decade, her solo career became somewhat overshadowed by the Lilith Fair, the unexpectedly successful summer touring festival that McLachlan founded to showcase women musicians. McLachlan was raised by her adoptive parents in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she took piano, guitar, and voice lessons as a child. While fronting a new-wave band called October Game at age 17, she was offered the chance to record a demo as a solo artist for Canada's Nettwerk label. Her parents balked at the idea, so she refused. But when the label extended a better offer two years later, after McLachlan had finished her first year of art college, she accepted and moved to Nettwerk's home in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she still resides.

In 1988 Nettwerk put out McLachlan's debut, Touch, which went gold in Canada and was released worldwide the next year. Her followup and first recording for Arista, Solace, showed an increased maturity in her songwriting and fore-shadowed the lyrical depth she would exhibit on 1993's Fumbling Towards Exstasy. Inspired in part by a trip the singer took to Cambodia and Thailand, and the suffering she witnessed there, Fumbling saw McLachlan extending the subject matter of her lyrics beyond her previous topics of love and romantic relationships. The album, which yielded the hit singles "Possession" (#73, 1994) and "Good Enough" (#77, 1994), went trople platinum and gained McLachlan a wide fan base. Her next recording, 1997's Surfacing, extended her previous success. It went to #2, produced three hit singles ("Adia,"[#3]; "Angel," [#4]; and "Building a Mystery," [#13]), and won McLachlan two Grammy Awards, for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The album eventually sold more than 7 million copies.

In 1997 McLachlan launched the Lilith Fair, which she founded in defiance of numerous promoters' insistence that a tour featuring more than one woman would never sell. In addition to the headlining McLachlan, the fair's bill included Tracy Chapman, Jewel, Joan Osborne, and Paula Cole and became the summer's top-grossing tour, outselling the more established (and male-dominated) Lollapalooza and H.O.R.D.E. festivals. Lilith Fair diversified its lineup during the next two years, showcasing musicians such as Erykah Badu, Bonnie Raitt, Missy Elliott, Luscious Jackson, the Dixie Chicks, and the Pretenders. Sticking to her resolution to keep the festival to a three-year run, McLachlan headed up the final Lilith Fair in 1999. In June of that year she released the triple-platinum live album Mirrorball (#3, 1999), for which she won the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2000.

The first instrument she learned to play was the ukulele.

Her song "Angel" kept rapper DMC alive while dealing with the discovery of his adoption. He heard it on the radio and immediately felt the pull of the music. It gave him hope and gave him the strength to make it through that dark time in his life. As a result, he asked her to collaborate with him on his solo song "Just Like Me". During one recording session, she revealed she too had been adopted.