The ex-child actor had become an international singing star by the age of twenty, but does she write her own songs?
Sabrina Carpenter certainly does write all her own songs. She’s started eagerly pursuing music from a young age, and has personally written – or co-written – every song she’s ever released.
Read on to learn more about Sabrina Carpenter’s artistic pursuits.
Young Success
As with most young Disney Channel stars, Sabrina Carpenter broke away from the company and made a career for herself. Although she’d found early success while acting and performing for the channel, it was her solo singing that found her true fame.
Sabrina Carpenter found her first major acting role on the Disney Channel with Girl Meets World. In this role, she played a character on-screen for almost three years. She expanded on the Disney venture with a role in an original movie. Then, as a voice actor for two separate animated shows.
However, her true passion was in music, and not acting. As a child, she’d always gravitated towards music. Her father had built her a recording studio in their home to nurture this aspiration. She dreamed of one day standing on stage, singing and releasing albums to her fans.
This dream was first realized and debuted in 2014, when Carpenter released an EP. This was titled Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying, and was fairly successful. This EP received backing from Disney and iTunes, propelling it further. You can see the music video for the titular track from this album below.
There’s a fact that differs Carpenter from a lot of her singing Disney Channel cohorts: she writes her own material. There was an article in Marie Claire, published in 2019, that explores this. It explained that Carpenter wrote and recorded her first albums whilst acting.
It also discusses her ability and success. One line in the article reads: “As a musical artist, Carpenter (who writes all of her own songs) has already headlined three tours and played Madison Square Garden.” These were considerable accomplishments for a girl of her age.
From Stage to Song
By 2020, Sabrina Carpenter had released four albums. She’d headlined three successful tours, and collaborated on another five. She continued acting, appearing in a whopping twenty-eight productions in nine years.
She also tried her hand at live theater, taking a role in the Mean Girls production on Broadway. Finding further success on the big screen, Carpenter took roles in Netflix productions, breaking away from Disney.
In an article published in 2018, Sabrina Carpenter explains how she broke out of “the Disney mold”. She’d certainly come a long way since singing in her kitchen for her family as a child, and it was time to leave the brand behind.
She’s gone on record explaining that she tried to evolve her music and writing as she got older. In another article published in 2018, she stated: “… the things I was writing about at 13 are very different to the things I’m writing about at 19.”
For a brief period (owing majorly to her breakout style) she was labelled a teen pop singer. However, she’s explored many other genres as time has gone on. She’s dabbled with pop, house, acoustic and country among other things.
Her acting and singing acumen has permitted her great success from a relatively early age. By 2020, she was worth a reported four million dollars. She’d accumulated almost one billion views on YouTube by the end of 2020, and had a massive social media following.
Truly stepping away from the juvenile teen persona, Carpenter blossomed on Instagram. She began posting more ‘grown-up’ images, flaunting her eye for fashion. She had over twenty million followers by July of 2020, a number that was rapidly climbing every day.