The NBC personality, who is helping to raise money to fight pediatric cancer for the network's Shine a Light campaign, recalled that when she was battling her disease, music was her solace. I was very lucky to be put in touch with my manager, Jordan Feldstein, who I met early in my career as well.This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. He would burn CDs and have the clipboard with my email list at the shows and helped make those early days possible. MC: How did you manage your career when first starting out?īareilles: I did, for the most part, but a good friend of mine was really helpful in the beginning stages. There also was a place called Space 6507 that I don’t think exists anymore. Molly Malone’s, Westwood Brewing, Hotel Café. I started doing open mics and really small shows around the city, and it grew organically. MC: How and where specifically did you get your music career off the ground?īareilles: I got started through the L.A. Feeling accepted and validated within the music community, I felt attached to that moment, and it made a big impact on me. It may have been a modest mention, and I am pretty sure I was wearing something hideous in the picture, but it was a huge deal to me. Sara Bareilles: Music Connection was one of the very first publications to feature me back when I was still at UCLA. How did that and other music sources influence you when you first started out? Music Connection: We’ve heard you’ve been a Music Connection reader, especially when you first started out. In this exclusive interview, Bareilles tells Music Connection about deviating from the norm and how her new experiences have impacted her latest work. and embarked on her first solo acoustic tour. Typically a solitary songwriter, she co-wrote the record’s first single, “Brave,” with Jack Antonoff of Fun.
There, she wrote her fourth LP, The Blessed Unrest, which dropped July 12th. Early this year, the singer, known for her powerful vocals and piano-driven melodies, left her comfortable hidey-hole in Los Angeles and moved to New York in the hopes of igniting a creative spark. Almost seven years after her debut hit tune, “Love Song,” catapulted Sara Bareilles into the limelight, the singer-songwriter has sold more than a million copies of her major label debut, Little Voice, received multiple Grammy nominations and judged the singing competition TV program The Sing-Off.
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