
It didn’t really have much structure initially. Sara Bareilles: I got approached with this opportunity to write some sort of memoir. Sara Bliss: What made you decide to write a memoir? What did you want to say and share? You can catch her performance on the Live Nation Channel on Yahoo or through the Yahoo App on mobile (IOS & Android) or connected devices (Apple TV, Roku, Xbox). Tune-in to watch Sara Bareilles’ one-night only performance exclusively on Yahoo on Thursday, November 5 at 8:00pm ET, where she’ll be previewing tracks from her new highly anticipated Broadway musical, “Waitress,” along with a few of her greatest hits. I want to make people feel loved and seen and heard. “I do know that I want to spend my time and my energy as an artist encouraging something positive. “I think, more than anything, sometimes these songs that I write are pep talk songs to myself,” Bareilles tells Yahoo Beauty. She writes about feeling like an outcast while growing up, grappling with doubts about her beauty, and trying to gracefully handle the challenge of staying authentic in the (not-so-authentic) music industry. You can already picture the teary-eyed audience singing along in the theater.ĭespite inspiring everyone else, Bareilles reveals in her new book, Sounds Like Me: My Life (so far) In Song, her own hurdles in finding confidence. The song is from her new album, “Waitress,” which is the score of her upcoming debut Broadway musical based on the 2007 movie of the same name.


Her latest single, “She Used to Be Mine,” delivers the haunting, powerful, moving music that Bareilles has become known for. Case in point: her 2013 empowerment anthem, “ Brave,” which she penned for a friend who was struggling with coming out.

Sara Bareilles writes songs that make you want to change the world, kick ass, weep, and find real love (sometimes all at once). Singer Sara Bareilles talks confidence in her new book.
