She toured as the opening act in 2006 for Marc Broussard's 'Carencro' tour. In mid-2004 she opened for Rocco DeLuca and the Burden during their inaugural headline tour, supported Guster on their first UK tour, and co-headlined a tour with Jon McLaughlin. She spent the remainder of the year, and the early months of 2006, writing, composing, and reworking songs for her upcoming album. She then signed a contract with Epic Records on April 15, 2005. In January 2004, Bareilles released her first studio album, Careful Confessions. In 2004, she appeared as a singer in a bar in the indie film Girl Play, performing the song 'Undertow.'

She issued two demos of mostly live tracks in 2003: The First One in April and The Summer Sessions in October. Career 2002вЂ“06: Career beginnings and Careful ConfessionsДЄfter graduating from UCLA in 2002, Bareilles performed at local bars and clubs (such as the Hotel CafГ© and Genghis Cohen in Los Angeles), building a following before performing in larger venues. Bareilles taught herself to play the piano and, subsequently, all other instruments she has been seen playing.

She performed in the annual student concert UCLA Spring Sing, winning twice. Bareilles and the band Maroon 5 have been acquainted since their younger days in California, when the band was known as Kara's Flowers. The group's rendition of Bareilles' 'Gravity' was featured on the Best of College a Cappella 2004 compilation CD. ДЄfter graduating from high school in 1998, Bareilles studied communication studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a member of the co-ed a cappella group Awaken a Cappella she can be heard on their album Dysfunktional Family, singing her original selection 'Gravity' and 'I Want You Back' by The Jackson 5. She participated in the high school choir, Limited Edition, and local community theater musical productions, including her high school's production of Little Shop of Horrors, in which she appeared as Audrey. She is of Italian, English, German, Portuguese, and French descent she speaks Italian and lived in Italy for a year. She composed music and wrote lyrics for the Broadway musical Waitress, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score in 2016 and a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album.Д«areilles was born and raised in Eureka, California in Humboldt County, one of three daughters of Bonnie Halvorsen (nГ©e Capellas), a funeral home worker, and Paul Bareilles, an insurance adjuster. Her memoir, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song, was published in 2015 and was listed by The New York Times as a best-seller.

In February 2012, VH1 placed Bareilles in the 80th spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music. In the third season of NBC's The Sing-Off, Bareilles was a celebrity judge alongside Ben Folds and Shawn Stockman.

Bareilles has sold over one million albums and over nine million singles/downloads in the United States alone and has earned six Grammy Award nominations, including one Album of the Year nomination for her album The Blessed Unrest. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single 'Love Song', which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Sara Beth Bareilles ( / b Й™ Л€ r Й› l ЙЄ s/ born December 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, actress and author.

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