{"id":152428,"date":"2025-04-22T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/22\/sara-bareilles-to-deliver-2025-ucla-commencement-address-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:14:21","slug":"sara-bareilles-to-deliver-2025-ucla-commencement-address-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/22\/sara-bareilles-to-deliver-2025-ucla-commencement-address-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Bareilles To Deliver 2025 UCLA Commencement\u00a0Address"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tSara Bareilles<\/a> is heading back to her alma mater to deliver this year\u2019s commencement address. UCLA announced on Tuesday (April 22) that the Grammy-winning \u201cBrave\u201d singer will deliver the keynote address at the 2025 UCLA commencement ceremonies on June 13 in Pauley Pavilion.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cMy time at UCLA held some of the most treasured years of my life. In many ways it still shapes the person I have become and am still becoming,\u201d said Bareilles in a statement. \u201cI feel so honored to get to share in this deeply meaningful time of transition for all the graduates, and to celebrate all the hard work, creativity, dedication, and resilience that helped them arrive at this very special day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNorthern California native Bareilles earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in communications in 2003 from the school where, as an undergraduate, she performed with the campus\u2019 Awaken A Cappella group and competed as a solo act in the university\u2019s annual Spring Sing showcase, according to a press release; she won the competition in both 2000 and 2003.<\/p>\n

\n\tBareilles will be one of the speakers at the three ceremonies scheduled to take place at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. that day, alongside Chancellor Julio Frenk and students from the class of 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSara Bareilles is an extraordinary artist and storyteller, and we are thrilled to welcome her back to UCLA for this year\u2019s commencement,\u201d said Miguel Garc\u00eda-Garibay, senior dean of the UCLA College and dean of physical sciences in a statement. \u201cHer journey highlights the importance of creativity and perseverance \u2014 messages that are sure to resonate with graduates as they step into the next chapter of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to composing the music and lyrics, and taking the lead role, in the Broadway hit Waitress<\/em>, Bareilles starred in the 2022 revival of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s musical Into the Woods<\/em> and contributed to the original score of 2016\u2019s SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical<\/em>. After wrapped up her three-season run as Dawn Solano in the music sitcom Girls5Eva<\/em>, Bareilles is currently working on a musical adaptation of author Meg Wolitzer\u2019s 2013 coming-of-age novel The Interestings<\/em>, composing the music and lyrics along with playwright Sara Ruhl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sara Bareilles is heading back to her alma mater to deliver this year\u2019s commencement address. UCLA announced on Tuesday (April 22) that the Grammy-winning \u201cBrave\u201d singer will deliver the keynote address at the 2025 UCLA commencement ceremonies on June 13 in Pauley Pavilion. Related Watch Sara Bareilles Turn \u2018Love Song\u2019 Into a Symphonic Sing-Along for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}