NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ By Tara Melega/ Epic Records) - Epic recording artist Sara Bareilles's voice is not so little anymore.
Little Voice, the highly anticipated debut album from singer/songwriter
Sara Bareilles – which was released on July 3 – skyrocketed onto iTunes album chart this week at No.1, with downloads of the single, 'Love Song' exploding.
The album's unprecedented explosive sales at iTunes is amplified by news that Sara will be opening for Grammy winning rock band Maroon 5 on a string of fall tour dates starting September 29th in Detroit, MI. In addition, Sara will make her first national television appearance Wednesday, July 11th on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
About the album's success, Sara says, 'This is totally crazy. I had no idea what to expect but never could have imagined anything like this would happen… this is overwhelming…in a really good way.'
The extraordinary Sara Bareilles is a mesmerizing artist – whose sound has been compared to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones – who grew up performing in her native Humboldt County with no formal training in either voice or piano. Much of Sara's adolescence was spent perched in front of a worn piano teaching herself chords and scribbling out simple melodies and lyrics. In 2003, Sara co-produced her first independent studio demo, "Careful Confessions,' which earned Sara a loyal grassroots following through touring. With word of mouth support and hypnotic live performances that leave fans hanging on her every word, Epic Records took notice and signed Sara to a record deal in April 2005.
Little Voice, - which was recorded in Los Angeles with renowned producer Eric Rosse (Tori Amos, Anna Nalick) - contains twelve songs that are stylistically acute, with fluid blends of pop and rock, as well as soul and jazz that reveal Sara's incredible vocal prowess.
The first single off Little Voice is the addictive pop track, 'Love Song,' which was selected as the iTunes single of the week, during the week of June 19th.
'Love Song' was born from, as Sara says, 'being kick you in the crotch mad.' 'I was in the middle of 'developing' the last bit of material for the album and spent most of my time trying to enter a creative space. Nothing I wrote seemed to be what the label was looking for and I caught myself critiquing my own ideas as I imagined they would do and freaked. I was pissed at myself for letting that bullsh** creep into my brain. I swore I would write something totally honest, whatever it may be: good, or bad. And I did. 'Love Song' was my response to all that, it was my little stick it to 'em.' Ironically, it became the first single.
You can catch Sara Bareilles (pronounced Bar-rell-is) performing 'Love Song,' and other favorites from Little Voice on the Rocco DeLuca tour through August 5, then with Maroon 5 on dates listed below. For more information please go www.sarabmusic.com.
Full schedule of dates below:
WITH ROCCO DELUCA
July 3 Tempe, AZ Clubhouse
July 6 Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda
July 8 San Diego, CA House of Blues
July 9 San Francisco, CA The Independent
July 10 San Francisco, CA Cafe Du Nord
July 13 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
July 14 Seattle, WA The Showbox
July 20 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Cafe
July 21 Chicago, IL House of Blues
July 22 Indianapolis, IN The Vogue
July 24 St. Louis, MO Duck Room
July 25 Cincinnati, OH 20th Century Theatre
July 27 Detroit, MI St. Andrew's Hall
July 29 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
July 31 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
August 1 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts
August 2 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre (with Ryan Adams)
August 5 Portland, ME The Station
WITH MAROON 5
September 29 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
October 1 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center
October 2 Rosemont, IL Allstate Arena
October 4 Toronto, ON Air Canada Center
October 5 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans
October 7 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
October 8 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena
October 10 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
October 12 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
October 13 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum
