Born Sabrina Ann Lynn Carpenter in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania on May 11, 1999, age 21 Carpenter became interested in performing at a young age. By age ten, she was going to auditions with her parents and won her first part playing a guest role on the hit NBC drama Law & Order: SVU. Actress and singer who starred as Maya Hart on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World. She released her debut EP Can't Blame a Girl for Trying in 2014, followed by the albums Eyes Wide Open (2015) and Evolution (2016).
In February 2016, Carpenter released the single "Smoke and Fire", followed by another single, "On Purpose", in July. On September 3, 2016, Carpenter announced her second studio album, EVOLution, and the following day announced that she would be headlining her first tour, the EVOLution Tour, in promotion of the album. Three promotional singles were released in the three weeks leading up to the album, "All We Have Is Love", "Run and Hide", and "Thumbs".
The album was released on October 14, 2016, and the tour began the following week. In May of 2017, she went on tour opening for The Vamps in the UK, and collaborated with them and Mike Perry on the single "Hands." At the end of June 2017, she opened in Brazil for Ariana Grande during her Dangerous Woman Tour and began her second headlining tour in North America on July 6, 2017. She released the single "Why" on July 7, 2017. On October 13, 2017, Lost Kings released a single called "First Love", which Carpenter was featured on.
Carpenter released the single "Alien" on March 16, 2018, a collaboration with Jonas Blue. This was followed by the release of "Almost Love" on June 6, 2018, with the single's release being preceded by the announcement of her next album, Singular. In September 2018, she contributed to the soundtrack of the Netflix movie Sierra Burgess Is a Loser with the song "Lie for Love". The following month, she played Hailey in the movie The Hate U Give, a movie adaptation of a 2017 novel by Angie Thomas. She also played Nola in the 2019 independent movie The Short History of the Long Road.
On October 22, 2018, Carpenter announced on social media that Singular would be released in two "acts", with Singular: Act I being released on November 9, 2018 and Act II "coming soon". She embarked on The Singular Tour in March 2019 to promote both acts of the album. On the tour, she debuted two unreleased songs, "Pushing 20" and "Exhale". "Pushing 20" was later released on March 8, 2019, while "Exhale" was released on May 3, 2019. She was also featured on Alan Walker's single "On My Way", released on March 21, 2019. Singular: Act II was released on July 19, 2019. Two more singles were also released in the month leading up to the album's release, "In My Bed" and "I'm Fakin". In September 2019, Carpenter played Harper Kreyman in the Netflix romantic comedy Tall Girl.
Sabrina inspires me to be the best person I can be and even at a young age you can achieve what you want. Her songs are amazing and she is such a cute soul in general with her own style.
– zali
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