Sabrina Carpenter is an American pop singer-songwriter from Quakertown, Pennsylvania, born in 1999, who grew from Disney-era beginnings into one of the defining pop breakthroughs of the 2020s. Short n' Sweet (2024) — Espresso, Please Please Please — hit number one and won the Best Pop Vocal Album Grammy. Browse Sabrina Carpenter vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter was born in Quakertown, Pennsylvania on May 11, 1999. She launched her acting career as a child, with roles in the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World (2014-2017). She launched her recording career as a Hollywood Records / Disney-era pop artist with the 2015 debut Eyes Wide Open. She departed Hollywood Records in 2020 and signed with Island Records / Universal. Her 2022 album Emails I Can't Send received critical attention. Her 2024 album Short n' Sweet - featuring the international viral singles Espresso, Please Please Please, and Taste - became one of the most commercially successful pop albums of 2024, reaching number one on the Billboard 200 and winning the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album in 2025 (alongside additional Grammy wins for Espresso). She is widely cited as one of the 2020s pop breakthrough artists alongside Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo.
Sabrina Carpenter's sound combines pop, dance-pop, pop rock, alternative pop, indie pop, and contemporary R&B with her distinctive vocal delivery (use of intimate phrasing and confessional approach), and arrangements drawing on classic 1980s pop and contemporary pop production approaches alongside witty lyrical content.
Hollywood Records and Island Records pressings of the Sabrina Carpenter catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and elaborate limited deluxe pressings, with collector demand.
Listeners new to Sabrina Carpenter typically start with Short n' Sweet (2024) or Emails I Can't Send (2022).
