24 Facts About Sara Forsberg

Sara Forsberg left in early 2016 after disagreements with the label and her producer.

Sara Forsberg has continued to release music as an independent artist in affiliation with Universal Music Group.

Sara Forsberg was born on 2 May 1994 in Jakobstad, Finland.

Sara Forsberg spent a few years in a music academy in Jakobstad and later studied to become a chef before embarking on a singing career.

In October 2023, Sara Forsberg revealed that she was born intersex and had been diagnosed with Swyer syndrome as a teenager.

In July 2014, it was revealed that Sara Forsberg had signed a record deal with Capitol Records with Rodney Jerkins acting as her executive producer.

Capitol Records chairman and CEO Steve Barnett said that the only artists that he had the same feeling about other than Sara Forsberg were Adele and Sam Smith.

Sara Forsberg is the first Finnish person to be signed to a major American record label.

Sara Forsberg told in her YouTube video that the producer Jerkins had left Capitol Records and she was left stranded, contractually not being allowed to work without him.

Sara Forsberg released her debut EP Hello I'm Saara on 27 May 2016.

In July 2015, it was revealed that Sara Forsberg has writing credit for the K-pop band Girls' Generation song "You Think" in their album Lion Heart.

In 2016, Sara Forsberg co-wrote the song "My Heart Wants Me Dead" by Lisa Ajax for Melodifestivalen 2016, as well as the song "Drip Drop" by Taemin from his second solo album Press It.

In June 2015, Sara Forsberg was featured on the song "Vauvoja" by Finnish singer Kasmir.

In May 2014, Sara Forsberg relocated to Los Angeles to perform on a YouTube channel affiliated with My Damn Channel called "WestToastTV" in addition to maintaining her own personal channel.

In October 2014, it was revealed that Sara Forsberg has a small role in the Hong Kong-Chinese-American film Skiptrace directed by Finnish director Renny Harlin.

In December 2015, the news broke that Sara Forsberg had spent the last 18 months working with Lucasfilm and was the creator of an alien language used in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

In July 2016, it was revealed that Sara Forsberg had created another alien language for a Hollywood film, this time for the film Star Trek Beyond, in which she has a minor voice role as an alien named Kalara.

In 2016, Sara Forsberg worked as a judge on the fifth season of Talent Suomi, the Finnish version of Got Talent.

Also, in February 2017, Sara Forsberg began hosting Remotely Funny, a British game show on CBBC.

In 2018, Sara Forsberg went on appearing on Finnish TV, in spring on the contest Pallon ympari, where she has been travelling around the world by performing tasks as one of the three competitors.

Sara Forsberg has been told to go on co-hosting again the studio contest Kaikki vastaan 1 in autumn 2018.

Sara Forsberg was interviewed on British BBC Radio, Finnish public radio Yle and Swedish TV in which she confirmed that she was contacted by a producer from The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

The trip was documented in a short series titled Sara Forsberg Goes LA which was produced by Finnish broadcaster MTV and has been published on YouTube since.

Sara Forsberg announced her new clothing line FRSBRG in May 2015 and advertised it to her Finnish viewers with a number of well known celebrities from her home country.