Sarah Hope Slean (born on 21 June 1977) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Pickering, Ontario.

A former York University student, Slean is also an accomplished painter and photographer. She recorded her first album Universe at the age of 19 and has since completed three other albums, Blue Parade (1998), Night Bugs (2002), and Day One (2004). Night Bugs was her first major label album, co-produced by Slean and Hawksley Workman, and released by WEA in Canada and Atlantic Records in the United States. It was heavily inspired by cabaret music. On September 28, 2004, Slean released her fourth a