It's an unconventional breakthrough for the California native, who got her start in a very old-fashioned way: playing open-mic nights in L.A. "Love Song" explodes (to date, it has sold more than two million copies). Music download site Rhapsody features the song in a commercial. Clip becomes so popular that Apple decides to make the song a free download for a week. The story goes like this: Fan uploads to YouTube cell-phone footage of Bareilles performing " Love Song" at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Though Bareilles records for a major label (Epic), her success is very much a result of the kind of DIY methods indie artists use to snag new listeners. Wearing an oversize black sweater and a pageboy cap and nursing a cup of tea ("I'm getting on-the-road flu," she says-she's on tour), the 28-year-old has turned that childhood love of show tunes into a white-hot career, fueled by "Love Song," the hyper-catchy single from her most recent album, Little Voice. I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid," says Sara Bareilles as she stares dreamily at the Broadway theater lights twinkling through the windows of a New York hotel bar.
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