About Saint Honesty

"Saint Honesty" follows "No Such Thing," a heartbroken balled co-written with Justin Tranter and also produced by Burnett, upbeat single "Fire" and "Armor," all of which will appear on Amidst the Chaos. The album, which features a collaboration with John Legend, is Bareilles’ fifth. It follows her 2013 effort The Blessed Unrest. In the time since the singer-songwriter made her Broadway debut in the musical Waitress as both a lyricist and the star, which earned her a Tony nomination for Best Original Score. She also won an Emmy last year for her performance as Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert, which also starred Legend.

Sara Beth Bareilles (born December 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and author.

She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Bareilles has sold over one million albums and over nine million singles and downloads in the United States alone and has earned seven Grammy Award nominations, including one Album of the Year nomination for her album The Blessed Unrest. In the third season of NBC's The Sing-Off, Bareilles served as a celebrity judge alongside Ben Folds and Shawn Stockman. In February 2012, VH1 placed Bareilles in the 80th spot of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music.

Her memoir, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song, was published in 2015; The New York Times listed it as a bestseller. She composed music and wrote lyrics for the Broadway musical Waitress, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score in 2016, and a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album. In April 2018, Bareilles received acclaim for her portrayal of Mary Magdalene in NBC's adaptation of a classic Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, for which she was nominated for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

In November 2017, at the United Nations in New York City, Bareilles was given a Women's Entrepreneurship Day Pioneer Award for her success in music and her championing of women everywhere.