Sarah Houtman
Sarah Houtman is a grade 10 Sir Winston Churchill
Secondary School student who has been writing her own songs since she was 10. She has always loved writing poetry and from a very young age, has had the love for the guitar. Her family is very musically oriented and she would always sing at all the family gatherings. Since the age of 10, she has performed in coffee houses for art shows and party’s and has also performed in malls for fashion shows. The very first song that she learned was Nobody’s Home by Avril Lavigne. The peope that she looks up to for inspiration is Sarah McLachlan, Jann Arden, Chantal Kreviazuk, Simon and Garfunkel, and her recent artist that inspires her, is Laura Marling.
The songs that Sarah writes about is what she feels will reach out to people and inspire people to go out and reach for what they want to achieve in life. She also writes about the feelings that she felt that day and gets all of her emotions out on paper.
The reason that Sarah would love to win the OTC contest is so that she can reach out to people and just enjoy doing what she loves for the rest of her life.
