Sarah McLachlan is a wonderfully talented Canadian singer/songwriter/musician. At a young age, she was trained at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Nova Scotia. She learned guitar for 12 years, piano for 8 years and spent 5 years refining her voice.
Her success in music leads to numerous awards, which includes: 3 time Grammy Award winner and the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award for advancing the careers of women in music. Sarah has sold over 22 million records worldwide since her recording career began with her debut release, “Touch”, in 1988 and has been profiled by media the world over including cover stories for Rolling Stone, Time and Entertainment Weekly.
Her music is featured of her pure voice and beautiful harmonies along with love and loss in a depth of warmth.
The disc Surfacing was released in 1997 and come out of nowhere in a time when the teen pop craze was going on. It had sophisticated songwriting with great piano and guitar hooks and Sarah scored some great hits from this record that were in heavy rotation in 1997 and 1998.
I chose the album surfacing to design the CD cover for, because it is such a masterpiece of Sarah. It is a singer and songwriter at the top of her talent. I am amazed every time I listen to this CD. The design of the cover is trying to match the style of “Surfacing”. The black background with Sarah’s initial in dark grey, the type “surfacing” with reflection, and the feathered type of the name in the font of Mistral are all attempting to approach the depth of the music, the meaning of the lyrics and stunning beauty of her voice.
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