Sara Beth Bareilles is an American singer-songwriter and musician. 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 records and over four million singles in the United States alone and has been nominated for a Grammy Award five times as well as earning a nomination for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, the most prestigious award in the music industry.In February 2012, VH1 placed Bareilles in the 80th spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music.
At an appearance in Ann Arbor Michigan (February 23rd 2008), she stated that she would like to do a voice in a Disney movie.
The youngest of three Sisters.
In the interim talking on her "Live from So Ho" EP, she mentions that she often doesnt get paid when she plays at universities because of her excessive swearing.
She is very good friends with Ingrid Michaelson.
Her father is of French (the origin of her surname), Italian, and Swiss-Italian, descent. Her mother is of three quarter Portuguese ancestry, with the remainder of her mothers roots being English and German.
I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were,so mean.
I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.
I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out,in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.
I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized,venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on.
I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record,in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move,forward.
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.
My emotional world imploded, and there is nothing that could have been said or done to make it easier. No one was in the wrong, and maybe that is what made it so painful. I wanted someone to blame, but instead got the two people I loved most doing their best to navigate uncharted waters.
