

For her work in the 2016 Broadway musical SpongeBob SquarePants, she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Original Score. She subsequently released the 2015 studio album What's Inside: Songs from Waitress, which is a recording of the musical's songs. In 2013, she released her fourth studio album The Blessed Unrest, which earned two Grammy Award nominations, including Album of the Year.īareilles composed music and wrote lyrics for the 2015 Broadway musical Waitress, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album.

In 2011, Bareilles served as a judge in the third season of the NBC singing competition series The Sing-Off.

In 2010, she released her third studio album Kaleidoscope Heart, with its lead single " King of Anything" earning a Grammy Award nomination. The album included the hit single " Love Song", which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned her two Grammy Award nominations, including Song of the Year.

She received further recognition with the release of her second studio album Little Voice (2007). Bareilles released her debut studio album Careful Confessions in 2004. She followed that with a star turn as Mary Magdalene on NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live and, in 2020, finally snagged her first Grammy for the gentle, T Bone Burnett-produced "Saint Honesty.Sara Beth Bareilles ( / b ə ˈ r ɛ l ɪ s/, bə-RELL-iss born December 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, author, and producer. Not content to rule the pop charts, Bareilles returned to theater, writing the music for the 2015 Tony-nominated stage production Waitress and later making her Broadway acting debut in the show. Her follow-up album, 2010’s Kaleidoscope Heart, debuted at number one of the charts, and 2013’s The Blessed Unrest, with its inescapable, heart-swelling single “Brave,” followed suit. From there, Bareilles’s career was on a rocket-like trajectory, thanks to her passionate vocals, unique melodies, and raw emotions. Her breakthrough came with 2007’s Little Voice, a platinum-selling album about love, loss, and life as a young woman that garnered comparisons to Fiona Apple and Regina Spektor and, for the single “Love Song,” multiple Grammy nominations. After graduating from UCLA, her demo recordings led to a deal with Epic, which released her debut album, Careful Confessions, in 2004. When Sara Bareilles’ soaring 2007 single “Love Song” appeared at the top of the charts, fans who’d seen the talented singer, songwriter, and pianist performing at open mics around Los Angeles had one question: “What took so long?” Born in Eureka, CA in 1979, Bareilles honed her vocal talents in her school’s choir and local theater productions.
