Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter was born on May 11, 1999, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, to David and Elizabeth Carpenter, and raised in East Greenville. She is an American singer and actress. She is a niece of actress Nancy Cartwright. She has three older sisters and was homeschooled. Around the age of 10, she began posting videos on YouTube of herself singing Christina Aguilera and Adele songs. Her father built a recording studio for her to fuel her passion for music. She first gained recognition starring on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World (2014–2017), and signed with the Disney-owned Hollywood Records to release her debut single, Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying, in 2014. Carpenter moved to Island Records in 2021 and released the standalone single Skin, which became her first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100. She opened for Taylor Swift at the Eras Tour in 2023, and had her commercial
breakthrough with her sixth album Short n Sweet (2024), which became her first to debut atop the US Billboard 200 and spawned the Billboard Global 200-number one singles Espresso and & Please Please Please. Carpenter has appeared in films such as the comedy Adventures in Babysitting (2016), the coming-of-age drama The Hate U Give (2018), the road drama The Short History of the Long Road (2019), the musical drama Clouds (2020), and the thriller Emergency (2022). She has also starred in the
Netflix productions Tall Girl (2019), Tall Girl 2 (2022), and Work It (2020), the latter of which she executive-produced. On Broadway, she played a lead role in the musical Mean Girls (2020).
Four: Skin
Skin is a song by American singer Sabrina Carpenter. It was released through Island Records on January 22, 2021. This track has garnered 34M views on it Official Music Video on YouTube and was debuted at number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first entry on the chart. It was written by Carpenter, Tia Scola and its producer Ryan McMahon. Skin is a synth-pop ballad.
FYI
- Carpenter named R&B as a genre that often influences her work. She cited Christina Aguilera and Rihanna as her biggest musical influences.
- From 2020 to 2021, Carpenter was in a relationship with actor Joshua Bassett. Since late 2023, she has been in a relationship with Irish actor Barry Keoghan.
Three: Nonsense
The song titled Nonsense by Sabrina Carpenter, and it’s from her fifth studio album, Emails I Can’t Send (2022). Carpenter wrote the track with Steph Jones and Julian Bunetta, who also handled its production. Nonsense was originally the ninth track on the album but after gaining traction on the video-sharing app TikTok it became the fourth track. It is known as one of Carpenter signature songs and has garnered over 93M views on it’s Official Music Video on YouTube.
Two: Please Please Please
Serving as one of her recent and popular songs is Please Please Please from her sixth studio album Short n Sweet (2024). It was released through Island Records on June 6, 2024, as the second single from the album. It has garnered over 99M views on it’s Official Music Video on YouTube and over 727M streams on spotify. This track is a country pop and yacht rock song with disco-pop influences. It was written by Carpenter herself, Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff who is also the producer.
Awards/Nominations
Sabrina Carpenter has received and been nominated for various awards since 2015 till date.
- In 2015 & 2016, she for Best Crush Song and Best Anthem Awards at the Radio Disney Music Awards
- In 2019, Sabrina won the Best Performance Award at SCAD Savannah Film Festival .
- In 2023, she won the Rising Star Award at Variety Hitmakers.
- In 2024, she won the Most Performed Song of the Year Awards at the BMI Pop Awards, the Best New Artist Award at the Gold Derby Music Awards and the Favorite Viral Song at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.
And ofcourse, Sabrina has a lot of pending Awards and Nominations.
Discography
– Eyes Wide Open (2015)
– Evolution (2016)
– Singular: Act I (2018)
– Singular: Act II (2019)
– Emails I Can’t Send (2022)
– Short n Sweet (2024)
One: Espresso
This song is Sabrina biggest hit of all time! It was released through Island Records on April 11, 2024, as the lead single from her sixth studio album Short n Sweet (2024). It was written by Carpenter herself, along with Amy Allen, Steph Jones, and Julian Bunetta who also handled the production. Espresso has garnered over 160M views on it’s Official Music Video on YouTube and over 1.2B streams on spotify.
