.Not content to rule the pop charts, Bareilles returned to theater, writing the music for the 2015 Tony-nominated stage production Waitress and later making her Broadway acting debut in the show. Cause I could live by the light in your eyes. Her follow-up album, 2010’s Kaleidoscope Heart, debuted at number one of the charts, and 2013’s The Blessed Unrest, with its inescapable, heart-swelling single “Brave,” followed suit. from album: The Blessed Unrest (2013) Let the bough break, let it come down crashing. From there, Bareilles’s career was on a rocket-like trajectory, thanks to her passionate vocals, unique melodies, and raw emotions. Her breakthrough came with 2007’s Little Voice, a platinum-selling album about love, loss, and life as a young woman that garnered comparisons to Fiona Apple and Regina Spektor and, for the single “Love Song,” multiple Grammy nominations. After graduating from UCLA, her demo recordings led to a deal with Epic, which released her debut album, Careful Confessions, in 2004.