Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles
Sara Beth Bareilles is an American singer-songwriter. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Bareilles has sold over one million albums and over nine million singles/downloads in the United States of America alone and has earned five Grammy Award nominations, including one Album of the Year nomination for her album The Blessed Unrest. In the third season of NBC's The Sing-Off, Bareilles was a celebrity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth7 December 1979
CityEureka, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.
I think we're at a really rich and fertile time in the zeitgeist about paying attention to diversity of all kinds - racial diversity, gender diversity, making room for a continuum that is more inclusive.
I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.
The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.
I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.
The theater community at large, I have to say, has just been so warm and so welcoming, and that's not something I'm as used to.
I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.
It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes
So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?
The music industry can feel wonderful, but it can also feel very cold.
I know that I'm very susceptible to getting caught up in storylines like, "I want him to be different. I want him to be more open. I want him to call." We have all of these storylines that kind of take over sometimes, and I think there's real grace and a peaceful heart at the center of just accepting what is, and knowing that everything's OK. The good, the bad, the ugly, the pain, the hurt, the frustration - all of that is valuable and part of this human experience, so we should lean in to all of it.
If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.
I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.
I like seeing someone that can sing jazz and then flip over and sing a pop song and then sing a rock song.