Sabrina Carpenter Facts
Sabrina Carpenter is the ringleader of Met Gala 2025 in pantsless look. She said it herself: She’s a busy woman.
And since last summer, the Grammy winner has taken the world by storm with her signature pop sound, clever innuendos, and iconic ‘60s style. This pint-sized pop star is five feet (to be exact) but continues to prove she’s living large when it comes to pop stardom.
Born in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, to parents Elizabeth Carpenter and David Carpenter, Sabrina showed her passion for performing at an early age. In fact, she often sang “Happy Birthday” for customers at a local diner that her family frequented.
As she recently put it to Vogue, “That was kind of my first real audience.”
By age 10, Sabrina began uploading covers to YouTube, singing songs by Taylor Swift, Adele, and Christina Aguilera. And before reaching her own Disney Channel fame, she placed third in Miley Cyrus’ 2009 singing contest The Next Miley Cyrus Project.
“After that contest ended—did not win, got to meet Miley, though, big perk,” she explained to Vogue. “I kept [singing] because I just loved it so much. I also felt like I was finding my voice through covering other people’s songs.”
After a slew of minor acting roles in shows including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Orange is the New Black, Sabrina landed her first major gig in the 2014 Disney Channel series Girl Meets World, where she starred as Maya Hart, best friend to Rowan Blanchard’s Riley alongside Ben Savage, and Danielle Fishel.
“That was my world, and that was my everything,” she told Teen Vogue of the series in August 2020. “And I was so proud to be a part of it and everything that it stood for.”
While she’s grateful for the experience, she now feels far from her child actor persona.
“I’m 900 inappropriate jokes away from being a Disney actor, but people still see me that way,” she admitted to Variety last August. “I’m always extremely flattered to be grouped in with the other women and girls who I’ve idolized and looked up to who came from that, but I feel very distant from it.”
Sabrina relaunched with her album Emails I Can’t Send, which featured her classic hits “Nonsense” and “Feather.” However, the album that cemented her spot as a main pop girl was 2024’s Short n’ Sweet. The record marked many firsts for the Pennsylvania native and even won Sabrina her first Grammys – Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo performance for her single off the album, “Espresso.”
Despite being her sixth studio album, Sabrina sees Short n’ Sweet as her “second big girl album.”
“When it comes to having full creative control and being a full-fledged adult,” she told Variety in August. “I would consider this a sophomore album.”
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