Sara Bareilles injured during Sydney show
Sara Bareilles suffered a self-inflicted injury while performing onstage in Sydney.
The American singer was performing in the City Recital Hall, during her current Australian tour, and was getting so involved in her performance that she hit herself with her microphone.
"I chipped my tooth at the Sydney show because I was making wild gestures and I hit the microphone and I hit myself on the mouth," she tells AAP.
The singer, who has sold multiple platinum records and has several Grammy nominations, won't be put off by a chipped tooth.
In fact, part of the appeal of Bareilles' live shows is how interactive she gets with her crowd which she admits is something she still gets a buzz from.
"My favourite thing is when the audience is kind of rowdy and are shouting things at the stage and there's something to work with," she says.
It's her third trip to Australia but her first time touring her massively successful album, The Blessed Unrest which went to No.2 in the US Billboard Hottest 200 charts.
Like a lot of great music, it came out of a tough period in Bareilles' life - she went through a relationship break-up, changed her band and moved from Los Angeles to New York City.
"I wrote most of it in 2012, that was a real year of soul searching for me," she says.
"I spent a lot of time looking at my life and finding out which parts weren't serving me any more and made some big changes. It's very bittersweet, there's a lot of longing and melancholy and saying goodbye to things that have been stable in your life," she says.
The album also spawned the massive hit Brave, which went two-times platinum in Australia.
Bareilles wrote the song with Jack Antonoff from the band Fun, and says they were both inspired by the gay rights movement. Bareilles was particularly inspired by a friend of hers who was struggling to come out at the time.
"It was a really intimate story for me and for my friend, and for Jack who's also a huge activist, and then to watch that song take on a life of its own has been an amazing thrill."
The multi-talented artists is now working on a musical version of indie film Waitress (2007).
The quirky cult-hit focuses on a young woman in an abusive marriage who works as a waitress in an American diner, and seeks solace in her talent for baking pies.
"They're working on different ways to infuse the pie baking, which is a theme throughout the story, into the audience experience ... maybe wafting the scent of apple pie into the theatre or selling pies at intermission," she says.
With one more show left in Australia before she goes, Bareilles has been honouring some homegrown talent while she's here.
The singer performed Sia's hit Chandelier during her live show in South Australia, but didn't even realise the relevance of her choice of cover.
"My first show in Australia was in Adelaide and I didn't even know Sia was from Adelaide ... so the audience let me know that real quick," she says.
Sara Bareilles has one more date left on her Little Black Dress tour of Australia in The Tivoli, Brisbane on September 24.
