Sarah McLachlan

I'm going to prove myself to my community.

And I got up there and I sang The Gambler by Kenny Rogers on acoustic guitar.

You got to know when to hold them.

Know when to fold them.

Know when to run.

I just loved Kenny Rogers.

Anyway, so I got up there to sing this song and I got about halfway through it and the mic stopped working.

Oh God.

And so my, my moment, you know, my, my triumphant moment was, uh, you know, dashed cause everybody said, Oh, that wasn't really you singing that the tape player must've turned off.

They refused to acknowledge that it was me singing, but I knew I felt good about it.

And, um,

I felt even better about it that they refused to believe it was actually me and they thought it was a recorded version of something that obviously sounded a little more professional.

So, yeah.

Who were you listening to at the time?

When I was really young, other than Kenny Rogers, it was Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell.

And then you're learning how to play how?

When I was four, I wanted to be Joan Baez.

So my mom got me ukulele and I started taking lessons.

I lived in a little subdivision.

So up the street, there was a little old lady who taught ukulele and