While it may seem like Sabrina Carpenter became an overnight success with her hit songs "Espresso" and "Please Please Please," the singer has been crafting her career from a young age.

Born in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, Carpenter began posting covers renditions on YouTube at 10 years-old in between her homeschooling. When she was 14, after moving to Los Angeles the year prior, she landed her breakout role in the Disney Channel reboot of Boy Meets World, the gender-swapped Girl Meets World as the lead character's best friend. Carpenter returned to her passion for music by releasing two albums with Hollywood Records as she continued filming the show. By the time Girl Meets World was cancelled, the young star was ready to follow in the steps of Disney icons before her like Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez and launched a full-blown career in pop music.

The multi-talented star shaped her sound into R&B inflected dance pop with clever hooks and deeply personal lyrics about her romantic relationships and desires as a young woman. In 2021, Carpenter signed to Island Records. The following year, Carpenter released her fifth album Emails I Can't Send, a project filled with buoyant pop bangers and mature lyrics. “Those real moments where I’m just a 25-year-old girl who’s super horny are as real as when I’m going through a heartbreak and I’m miserable and I don’t feel like a person,” she told Rolling Stone. Emails I Can't Send helped further raise Carpenter's star with raunchy number "Nonsense" and cheeky "Feather."

In 2024, after opening for Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour the year prior, Carpenter released "Espresso" and "Please Please Please," scoring her first US number-one single with the latter. The mix of impressive accomplishments propelled Carpenter into a new tier of pop stardom and made her one of the most exciting musicians of her generation. —Maya Georgi