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Sara Bareilles

Sara Beth Bareilles (/bəˈrɛlᵻs/; born December 7, 1979) 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 records and over nine million singles in the United States of America alone and has earned five Grammy Award nominations, including one for Album of the Year. In the third season of NBC's The S ... ing-Off, Bareilles was a celebrity judge alongside Ben Folds and Shawn Stockman. In February 2012 VH1 placed Bareilles in the 80th spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music. Bareilles 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. She has a half-sister named Melody. She is of Italian, English, German, Portuguese, and French descent; she speaks Italian and lived in Italy for a year. Bareilles was raised Catholic and 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 as Audrey. After graduating from high school in 1998, Bareilles attended the Communication Studies program at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a member of the co-ed a cappella group Awaken a Cappella, and can be heard on their Dysfunktional Family album singing "Gravity" and "I Want You Back" by The Jackson 5. The group's rendition of Bareilles' "Gravity" was featured on the Best of College a Cappella 2004 compilation CD. Bareilles and the band Maroon 5 have been acquainted since their younger days in California when the band was known as Kara's Flowers. She performed in the annual student concert UCLA Spring Sing, winning twice. Bareilles taught herself to play the piano and subsequently all other instruments she is seen playing. See more [+]

Love Song |||||

Head under water And they tell me To breathe easy for a whil...

She Used To Be Mine |||||

It's not simple to say That most days, I don't recognize me ...

Gravity |||||

Something always brings me back to you. It never takes too ...

I Choose You |||||

Let the bough break let it come down crashing Let the sun fa...

King Of Anything |||||

Keep drinking coffee, stare me down across the ta-ble While ...

Brave |||||

You can be amazing You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a ...

1000 Times |||||

Back of the room looking at you Counting the steps between u...

Between The Lines |||||

Time To tell me the truth To burden your mouth for what you ...

City |||||

There's a harvest each Saturday night At the bars filled wit...

When He Sees Me |||||

I stick with real things Usually facts and figures I minimiz...

Fairytale |||||

Cinderella's on her bedroom floor She's got a Crush on the g...

Winter Song |||||

bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum ...

Bottle It Up |||||

There'll be girls across the nation That will eat this up ba...

Love Song |||||

Head under water And you tell me to breathe easy for a while...

Many The Miles |||||

There's too many things that I haven't done yet There's too ...

Love On The Rocks |||||

We met on a rainy evening in the summertime Don't think I ne...

One Sweet Love |||||

Just about the time the shadows call I undress my mind and ...

You Matter To Me |||||

I could find the whole meaning of life in those sad eyes The...

Gravity |||||

Verso I. Something always brings me back to you. It never ...

Chandelier |||||

Party girls don't get hurt Can't feel anything, when will I ...

Uncharted |||||

Ahhh Mmmm No words, My tears won't make any room for more, ...

Soft Place To Land 1 |||||

Sugar Sugar, butter, flour verse 1 Sometimes I still see her...

Beautiful Girl |||||

You wanna walk into the room like that other girl does The o...

Breathe Again |||||

Car is parked, bags are packed, but what kind of heart doesn...

Cassiopeia |||||

Come in close now, it's time to tell a story Long ago and so...

Islands |||||

Waiting for the bus stop Waiting for the concrete black top...

Lie To Me |||||

Tell the truth, no lies I can take it Burned your breath, ju...

Little Black Dress |||||

Okay I can see it now it's all the same thing Just different...

Say You're Sorry |||||

Circus of silence down at our feet Paper cut tigers starting...

Chandelier Cover |||||

VERSE Party girls don't get hurt Can't feel anything, when w...

Chasing The Sun |||||

It's a really old city Stuck between the dead and the living...

December |||||

The winter?s light feels different on my skin It doesn't see...

Hercules |||||

I miss the days my mind would just rest quiet My imagination...

I Didnt Plan It |||||

Throw your rocks at me From your little glass house And then...

I'm On Fire |||||

Heya little girl is your daddy home Did he go and leave you ...

In Your Eyes |||||

Love I get so lost, sometimes Days pass and this emptiness f...

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