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.īareilles was born and raised in Eureka, California in Humboldt County, one of three daughters of Bonnie Halvorsen (née 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. is an official news provider for .Ĭopyright /CBS Local - Excerpted here with permission.Sara Beth Bareilles ( / b ə ˈ r ɛ l ɪ s/ born December 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, actress and author. Watch the video for "Brave," off Bareilles' upcoming album, The Blessed Unrest (out July 16), here. It all ends with Bareilles' feel-good dance army coming together for one final group number, letting everyone know they shouldn't be afraid of anything. The best example is the girl wearing a backpack who decides she also wants to dance in the library. She even enlists a few other dancers who get their groove on at the bus stop, the library, the mall and the gym to spread her uplifting message.Īll this spontaneous dancing gets the attention of innocent passersby, some of whom whip out their cameras to film the unusual events, while others decide to join in on the fun. In the clip, directed by actress Rashida Jones, Bareilles takes to the streets to encourage those who need a little help speaking up. In fact, for her new video "Brave," she dances like nobody's watching.
() Sara Bareilles is not afraid to show off her dance moves.
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