She is both a graduate of The New England Conservatory's Preparatory School and Berklee College of Music.

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She was this year's best talent recipient at Miss Tennessee with her operatic performance of "O Mio Babbino Caro" and was the 2016 New England's Got Talent first-place recipient after performing Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing." She has made it onto billboards, television, magazines, and the radio. Following the release of her hit singles 'U-Turn' and 'Last Christmas', Sabrina is back with 'Black Roses,' a genre-crossing edgy breakup song anyone would want to just belt out with. The relevant message allows people to listen and indulge in open self-interpretation, whether that is "healing or a song to belt out to, it evokes a certain feeling."

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What do you think is the correlation between fashion and music?

They are both creative outlets therefore if you want to elude a certain emotion of a song you can dress for that. You also want the music you are modeling to match what you are wearing, for example when I compete in 'evening gown' it is usually a slower song to match our walk and gown, walking in the swim is more fun and upbeat.

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Who do you look up to in both fashion and music?

There are so many great talented artists. Musically I have such a wide variety of artists I grew up on stretching from Martina McBride to Shakira to Whitney Houston. In fashion, I really like how MJ Day, the editor of Sports Illustrated Swim focuses on inclusivity.

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Madonna is an icon of both music and fashion. Do you agree?

I do! She was very unique and influential.

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If you can be given the power to change one thing in the world what would it be?

I would bring more understanding, we need peace.

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I would bring more understanding, we need peace.

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Fashion

They say what you wear affects your mood. Do you agree? Or is it the other way around?

I think what you wear can definitely affect your mood. I think a lot of people realized that in quarantine; if you wear your pajamas all day you might be less likely to be productive than if you get dressed for the day and feel put together.

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Most memorable moment in your career?

There are a lot of moments added up that have influenced my career, releasing my first single "U-turn" then going out on stage and performing it for the first time was launching for me.

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Any funny/embarrassing moment?

I won the 2016 New England Talent Search and my mic actually went out while I was singing so I just put the mic to my side and belted it out!

What is the core message of your music?

I want to make people feel and have my music just be a part of people's lives. Whether it gets someone through a breakup, gives them confidence, makes them feel happy, reminds them of memory, whatever it is just to accompany them through their lives.

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What’s your songwriting process? Is it melody first then lyrics or the other way around?

It really is different every time. Sometimes I will wake up in the middle of the night and write a whole set of lyrics down and record a little voice memo and sometimes I will work on a song for days going back and forth sharing ideas with a co-write or producer.

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I want... my music just to be a part of people's lives

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She describes her sense of fashion as "good, clean and classy spaklingly girly look." One that translate even in her music. Catch her latest release 'Black Roses' available on all digital music platform.

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