- May 4, 2024
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Sara Tomarelli will make her debut performance Mar. 1.
When Sara Tomarelli was 5 years old, her parents bought her a tiny CD player and a collection of Disney movie soundtracks. Her father, Sam Tomarelli, remembers first hearing his daughter sing.
“She would be sitting in her bedroom just singing along,” Sam Tomarelli said. “She would sing all kinds of songs. She sounded very good. Her career has been virtually uninterrupted since she started.”
“My parents aren’t that much into music,” Sara Tomarelli said. “Dad used to play piano and organ. He heard me singing and signed me up for voice lessons. It’s been a lifelong thing for me.”
Now a junior at Seabreeze High School, Sara Tomarelli performs cover songs on a regular basis for local venues around Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach. She describes her music as a “pop-rock crossover and a classical crossover.”
“It’s pretty much anything that Josh Groban would sing,” she said. “I’ve always loved singing. It makes me happy, and it’s fun for me to do. I remember seeing broadway shows like ‘Phantom of the Oprah.’ I want to be on stage in front of people.”
Sara Tomarelli’s first performance was at Daytona Playhouse when she was a freshman in high school.
“I was a little nervous because it was a sold out show, and I knew that before I went on,” Sara Tomarelli said. “They were good nerves. I just had to power through it.”
She started working on a CD a year ago, and will be performing a few songs from it at 2:30 p.m. Mar. 1 at the News Journal Center in Daytona Beach. After she graduates from Seabreeze, Sara Tomarelli plans on attending a musical conservatory to continue studying. She currently sings in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, and is working on her German.
“I’m only singing covers right now, but I’ll continue to keep making music and performing,” Sara Tomarelli said. “Maybe one day someone will discover me.”
