Sarah Borrello

Sarah Borrello is a nineteen year old, yet mature singer-songwriter out of Boston Massachusetts. Playing both guitar and piano Sarah creates emotionally-driven original music and has been captivating audiences in Southeastern New England for the past 7 years. Sarah won a number of competitions including the Boston Folk Festival Songwriting contest when she was 15, taking second place in the John Lennon Songwriting contest at 16, and at 17 winning 2,000 dollars in the Tazza Songwriting Contest as well as impressing industry professionals across the globe. Her songs are not typical in lyrical content, and deal with a wide range of obscure topics. Sarah's voice has been compared to Janis Joplin, Fiona Apple, and Grace Slick. When singing, Sarah brings both intensity and originality to her music. Her live shows are rivitting and filled with raw power. Her fanbase is an incredibly diverse audiences. Having released her first full-length CD 'Therapy' by the age of 16, A year later, she released her second CD, the "Black and White" EP, both albums sold out. In 2009 Sarah did a Northeastern Tour with her band Self Help Revolver, hitting Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. The band continues to play and has released its first self titled EP. Self Help Revolver had the honer of playing at Philadelphia Fashion week this past fall and continues to pick up momentum in the North East. In April 2011 the band will be opening for Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls at Sarah's college Massachusetts College of Art and Design.



A write up by Thomas Irving, a local music enthusiast in the MA/RI scene:
"After 11 weeks of competition, 17 year old Sarah Borrello took Providence by storm and landed the top prize in the Tazza Songwriting Contest, with the band The Low Anthem earning second place. Competition was fierce with 190 contestents, who proved that there are some really great songwriters in our area.Last Sunday night the three remaining acts were invited to each play a half hour of their best original music. Sarah was the only solo performer left in the competition. But when Sarah was onstage, she captured everyone's attention and showed her superb songwriting ability delivered with POW! The place exploded in applause, whoops and whistles when they announced Sarah as the winner. There was a strong Rick's Music World contingent there all yelling the loudest, I'm sure! We couldn't be more proud of Sarah, who began her music career on our Open Mic stage barely three years ago.
Sarah won $2,000 plus one of her songs will be in a Michael Correnti movie! Michael was so impressed with the top three acts, he promised all of them a place in one of his movies."