Returning to music scene after her three-year hiatus with a holiday record of "Wintersong", Sarah McLachlan appears to still be a favorable figure for broadcasting media if looking from her TV appearances for the second half of October 2006. As for date 16 only, she has been featured on not only one but two programs of "Canada AM" and "ET Canada" followed by a performance on Star TV by date 17, during which she also took the stage of Carnegie Hall alongside Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Natalie Merchant. More TV highlights of her included those on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "eTalk Daily" that both aired on date 18 plus another on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" by date 20.

A very devoted and dedicated music performer noticed widely for the emotional sound of her ballads, Sarah was born on January 28, 1968 and adopted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada under the name of Sarah Ann McLachlan. Drawn to music at a very young age, she has trained herself in the field since turning four years old, first playing ukulele then classical piano and guitar while persistently honing her singing skills through voice lessons for a number of years. By the age 17, the girl had already fronted a rock band called %October Game% and took part in the troupe's first concert at Dalhousie University as the opening act for Moev, a Vancouver-based electronic music group specializing in synthpop.

This debut performance unexpectedly turned out to be a starting point for Sarah to build her singing career in professional track as she delightfully managed to impress a Moev member named Mark Jowett who is also the co-founder of Nettwerk Records. A recording contract was subsequently offered, but upon her parents' reluctance, she opted to continue her study instead, enrolling in the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design following her graduation from Queen Elizabeth High School. Nevertheless, the singing call apparently was way too strong for her to resist and so, prompted the teen to ultimately sign deal with the label on October 2, 1987 after once again being approached by the company.

Assiduously spent around one year to work on the materials for her first effort, Sarah finally made her way to release debut album "Touch" on September 28, 1988 in Canada to positive response, especially in alternative rock circles. What was more, it also gained fairly good outcome in U.S when getting re-released by January 1989 under Arista Records with singles "Vox" and "Steaming" gaining constant airplay on college and alternative radio. As a follow-up, a second LP titled "Solace" afterwards was launched on June 28, 1991 and fared even better as it was certified double Platinum by Canadian Recording Industry Association though proved not powerful enough to create considerable buzz in the States.

Things, however, began to change drastically by the time Sarah brought up her third effort "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" to the surface on October 22, 1993. An immediate success in Canada, the record amazingly managed to peak atop Billboard's Heatseeker and reach the 50th rank on The Billboard 200, along the way spawning two top 20 Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks hits of "Possession" and "Good Enough." The attainment still continued in1995 when the album received Platinum status while its singer got nominated for Best Alternative Music Performance at Grammy Awards, without doubt catapulted the beauty to widespread recognition across U.S as a result.

Finding no difficulty to maintain her path in mainstream music circuit until the end of the nineties, 1997 presumably was the most memorable year of the decade for Sarah, either in her professional or private life. Not only happily tied the knot with her longtime musical partner Ashwin Sood in a marriage ceremony held on February 7 in Jamaica, she also obtained another superb outcome which was even greater than before through her fifth album "Surfacing" released on July 15. Contained fifteen tracks, the record resulted phenomenally, soaring straight away to the second spot on The Billboard 200 besides generating several hits, notably those of "Adia" and "Angel" that both peaked at the top five of Billboard Hot 100.

Amid the fantastic achievement, what should be noticed more in this year was surely none other than the materialization of Lilith Fair, an all-female concert tour and traveling music festival founded based on Sarah's deep concern on the struggle against sexism also conventional industry wisdom. Featuring the likes of Paula Cole, Jewel Kilcher, Sheryl Crow, and Emmylou Harris, the event delightfully has proven to be an effective vehicle to showcase the abundance of talented women in the music industry for sure until its last implementation in 1999. This in turn really enhanced Sarah's status in the business, furthermore fully established her as a major music artist by the time she launched live album "Mirrorball" on June 15, 1999.

Already secured three Grammy Awards out of seven nods she received throughout 1998-2001 then gave birth to her daughter, India Ann Sushil Sood, on April 6, 2002, it was not until late 2003 that this brown-eyed singer struck the music scene again with her next effort. Titled "Afterglow", the LP, released on November 4, still became a solid proof of her brilliant talent as it fabulously peaked at number two on The Billboard 200, later even scoring Best Pop Vocal Album nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards. Three of its tracks, namely "Stupid", "Fallen", and "World on Fire" also resulted well on the music charts, particularly Billboard's Adult Top 40, with the latter two adding more Grammy nods for her in 2004 and 2006, respectively.

Once again decided to take quite a long pause following the launch of "Afterglow" to carry out Afterglow Live tour around North America and the world, Sarah eventually made her comeback on October 17, 2006 through the release of her first Christmas album, "Wintersong." "I wanted to pick songs that reflected the season for me," so she said on making this collection of holiday music. "I feel an awful lot of nostalgia and melancholy around Christmas, so it brings up feelings of sadness and loss as well as joy. I wanted (the album) to evoke that sadness and contemplative nature."

On June 22, 2007, Sarah gave birth to her second daughter, named Taja, which has the same meaning with "crown" in Hindi.