Sarah Lake is a Canadian-born, North Carolina-raised, Nashville-based singer/songwriter. Lake, under her maiden name Sarah Mather, was on the fourth season of American Idol, eventually making her way to the finals. After the show, she relocated to New York, where she met Grammy-nominated producer Ernie Lake, who would become her spouse.
The Canadian-born artist took a brief break from music to start a family. After the births of her two children, Lake was ready to continue pursing her career. 2016’s The Ride EP featured “The Ride,” which went to number one on the CMT Artist Discovery Program and stayed there for four weeks. EP track “Soldier On” amassed over one-million views on YouTube.
Lake relocated to Nashville back in 2017. And since then she has released music that has been featured on Tidal, Apple Music and a variety of Spotify playlists. As a songwriter, the Canadian-born and now-Nashville-based artist has written songs for The Voice Season 13 finalist Moriah Formica, Ms. America Betty Cantrell — and Reba McEntire took her song “Amen” into the studio in 2018.
And although as a songwriter, she continues to write material across a range of formats and styles, as an artist, Lake’s work has firmly in the realm of Americana/folk.
Her latest songs “Devil in My Head” and Messy” have been featured on Nashville-based radio station Lightning 100. “Missing Home” has been added to several Apple Music playlists. And the video for “Wide Eyed Girl” was added to CMT online.
Released earlier this year, the Everette and Lake cowritten “Soul Shaker” is a hook-driven and anthemic bit of country pop — or perhaps pop country? — that captures the swooning sensation of love with a folksy and lived-in earnestness. Recently, Ernie Lake, who remixed Pink‘s “Get The Party Started” and Taylor Swift’s “Willow” among a lengthy list of others, remixed “Soul Shaker,” turning the track into a summery, Stevie Nicks “Stand Back”-meets disco heyday-like bop featuring wah-wah pedaled funk guitar, soaring and cinematic bursts of strings, conga, and a relentless funky groove — all of which seem to serve and emphasize Lake’s easy-going soulful delivery.
Lake hopes that the song will take listeners to a happy place and back to simpler times of roller skating rinks and dance floors.
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