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Music has always been important for Sara Bareilles.
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She began performing in school at an early age.
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Later, she joined a singing group while studying
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at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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“I got started my sophomore year at school,
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and I was just talking about it earlier.
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Actually, I felt like I had sort of found
my home because we were all sort of equally geeky.”
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Bareilles had an easy time
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combining singing with songwriting.
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“They felt very, like, they went hand in hand to me ...
writing the songs and singing them.
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Because I think they are all so personal
and I tend to be a very autobiographic writer.”
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Her songs are often very personal.
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“I do write very much from my own perspective.
I’m writing about things I’ve gone through ...
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and, you know, a lot of relationship stuff
and just sort of how I see the world.”
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She talks about her album “Kaleidoscope Heart”.
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“I feel like I took more risks this
time around both from the song writing perspective
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and from a production point, as well.
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Like, we’ve just kind of swung for the fences.
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And I wanted to have ...
I didn’t want to limit myself or
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self-edit too much this time around,
so I really did what felt good.
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And I had a blast recording the record.”
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Sara Bareilles is best known for her 2007 hit “Love Song”.
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You may be surprised to learn why she wrote it.
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“It was actually written for my record label.
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I had been turning in new music.
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I was getting the red light.
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I couldn’t go into the studio yet because
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they were waiting for something.
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But they wouldn’t ...
nobody said what they were waiting for.
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And, so I kept turning in new songs,thinking like,
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‘Is this what you want? Is this what you want?’
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And it was always a big thumbs down,
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and I ended up writing ‘Love Song’ out of frustration.”
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In her career, Sara Bareilles has already
earned several Grammy Award nominations
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and sold more than a million records.