A critically acclaimed singer/songwriter that achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single “Love Song”, which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Bareilles has sold over one million records and over seven million singles in the United States alone and is a six-time Grammy Award nominee. Her fourth studio album, The Blessed Unrest was a 2014 Grammy nominee for Album of the Year, the most prestigious award in the music industry. In the third season of NBC’s The Sing-Off, Bareilles was a celebrity judge alongside Ben Folds and Shawn Stockman. In February 2012, VH1 placed Bareilles in the 80th spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music.

Her memoir, published in 2015, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song is a New York Times bestseller.

She composed the score for the Broadway musical Waitress, earning a Tony Award nomination for her work in 2016. On March 31, 2017, Bareilles took over the lead role Jenna in the Broadway production for ten weeks.