Sabrina

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Although Sabrina Carpenter’s 10-year goal is “to stay alive and do what I love,” the 17-year-old singer/songwriter will surely accomplish so much more – on her own terms.

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106 360 MAGAZINE 360 MAGAZINE 107 Carpenter started singing at 2 years old, began dance lessons at 3, and singing lessons at 6 in order to pursue a professional career in the entertainment field. “And then later on, I found out that I loved to act. Because I realized that at such a young age, I knew it was coming from a real place of truth and just something that really made me happy,” recalls Carpenter. Would a 2-year-old think of a career goal? “You know what, people told me that I was an old soul, so I guess so,” she laughs.

Now, she’s been very well known for her role as Maya Hart on Girl Meets World (which is currently in its third season). “We are so lucky to be able to further break the boundaries with the subjects that we cover, and really help this generation,” she says of the Disney Channel hit series. “The more and more that our show is going on, the more that we are in the know of what’s happening in the world, and that’s the audience we want to cater to.”

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According to Carpenter, Maya Hart is “complex. She’s gone through a lot, but she is also such a loving human being.” (She quickly jokes: “Um, maybe that’s why her last name is Hart, get it? Ha!”) “I think she is very confident in who she is, and she might hide some of the bad things she’s gone through in her life with her confidence and with her rebellious attitude, but that’s just what makes her who she is. She’s blunt and she’s to the point, and she really cares about people,” Carpenter asserts, adding that through the role of Maya Hart, she’s learned “some things about teenage feelings – being a teenager and all the things that come along with it. There’s something new every day. Especially in high school, you meet different kinds of people, and they change your point of view and you’re changing every five minutes, and it’s really something crazy.”

Back in 2014, Disney Consumer Products and its D-signed clothing line created a Girl Meets World collection – but Carpenter is looking to launch her own clothing and/or makeup lines in the future. “It’s all part of the creativity process, which I love. And, as a young girl, I always love to draw, sketch, and make fashion sketches. Fashion is always changing and always growing, and always beating itself every single day. I would love to explore all the different areas of that,” describes Carpenter, who “took so much from my sisters” on fashion and beauty when growing up (“Growing up with them is mayhem. It’s a lot of feelings, it’s a lot of emotions, and it’s a lot of estrogen”).

Furthermore, she is getting ready for her second album release (due out late this year) as the lead single “Smoke and Fire” came out in February. “I’ve written a lot of songs based on true personal experiences, but I think when it comes to this subject, it relates to so many people if not everybody, and if not now, then in the future, it will relate to everybody. It’s just something that we all go through, and it’s really cool that I was able to connect to my audience on a more universal level. Not only that, but it was just like, I got to sing a song that had all the soul that I had been dying to get out of my system for a very long time so it’s a very special song to me,” she confidently explains of the fiery anthem. “We wrote the chorus and the verse on the first night, and then, a couple months later, we finished the song in New York City.”

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Carpenter says that the album focuses on “the universal subjects of real-life people interactions and feelings, and inspirational/motivational subjects. Music speaks for itself in the music so the lyrics are really just the icing on the cake and how you tell the story,” she continues. “We all have stories for reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don’t feel they would help anybody. There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don’t know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world.”

In late April, moreover, she performed at an American Red Cross event. “That was beautiful, very, very incredible that I was honored to perform that, but there are gonna be so many great causes and charities that I’ve been lucky enough to support and be a part of this year,” she shares. “Music is such a strong thing in our lives that can really help us through anything. And, I try to get the most positive messages that I can get to my fans but not even just positivity, it’s also just inspiration in the way that you can do anything that you put your mind to. Music is such a diverse thing. It truly is – it’s like another language that we all speak somewhere inside of us, so it’s a great way to get your messages across.”

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