Sara and Her Album

In January 2004, Bareilles released her first studio album, Careful Confession. She signed a contract with Epic Records on April 15, 2005.The remainder of the year and early 2006 were spent writing and reworking songs for her upcoming album. Her song, "Gravity," appears briefly in the 2006 independent film Loving Annable. Gravity also appears in Season 2, Episode 21 "Paradigms of Human Memory" of Community during a montage scene reflecting on the characters previous interactions.

In Jule 2007 Little Voice is her first major label album. She signed with Epic Records on tax day 2005, and She spent the better part of the next year writing and developing the material for the album that is set to be released on July 3rd. Songwriting is the most sacred thing in her life. It’s how She process my world. For now, it’s usually her and her piano (that she rent because she don’t have one), her lousy grammar, and some emotion that makes her feel like she's bursting at the seams.
And it’s the best feeling in the world.

On October 28, 2008, Bareilles released Between the Lines Live at the Fillmore on DVD and CD. The package is a recording of her first headlining tour at the famous Fillmore in San Fransisco. This package also included unique live recordings of her unreleased song "August Moon," as well as a cover of Otis Redding's "(Sittin on) the Dock of the Bay." She concluded the tour in her home town of Eureka, California on December 19, 2008, at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts.

On September 7, 2010 Kaleidoscope Heart was released and debuted at number 1 in the United States, selling 90,000 copies.Interestingly, her previous album Little Voice re-entered the charts at number 200 in the same week, bookending the charts.
Bareilles toured in support of Kaleidoscope Heart from September to December 2010, with most of the shows being sold out. Bareilles toured Europe and parts of Asia and Australia with Maroon 5 throughout spring 2011. She embarked on a small headline "Uncharted" tour in April 2011.