Sara Bareilles

Due to my MadWorld auditions, I was introduced to Sara Bareilles. I've heard her song 'Love Song' on airplay and then I heard 'Gravity' played once on the "older folks" radio channel, but never really got into her. I thought she was another regular pop act.

Then, when I had to sing 'Gravity' for my callbacks, I was hooked, line and sinker into Sara Bareilles.

Got my hand on the 2nd album 'Kaleidoscope Heart' and never looked back.

With my slanted interest towards the lesser known acts, I really like Bareilles' way of writing and composing. She writes with such wit, such eloquence and her melodies are definitely memorable. Her lyrics are vulnerable, raw, yet polished with her melody. There's often that raw honesty to her songs and the way she expresses them that makes her songs resonates deep, even without having going through the same heartache or excitement that she has gone through. Somehow you can identify with her almost completely.

She isn't the most compelling singer (I mean, no one beats Whitney Houston and those legendary divas), but she knows how to hone it to her advantage, hence, she has one of the really beautiful vocals of her genre. I still can't sing her songs without either running out of breath or having choppy timing. Well, they are all techniques, and Bareilles is one that got hers down pat with her self-written songs fitting to a tee, hence her voice fits her songs perfectly and vice versa.

My dream is to be able to sing-songwrite like her. *looks at the piano and sighs

P/S: I really do love her gutsy-ness.

Music video for 'Gonna Get Over You' from her sophomore album 'Kaleidoscope Heart'


One of the best live singers:


AND The song that started it all (from her major-label debut album, 'Little Voice')

Live:


Music video:



SaraB, I love you.