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Music competition shows capture our attention by offering up-and-coming singers the chance to show off their skills and step into a moment where potential and opportunity collide. The format for these sorts of competitions has always been television, but Breakthrough is creating change within the category with the first ever audio-only singing competition show. After all, you don't need to see a singer to judge their chops as a vocalist, Now, Audible is leaning into that fact with a team of iconic stars including Grammy Award-winning artists Kelly Rowland, Sara Bareilles, and Daveed Diggs to create Breakthrough, which joins their slate of music-culture originals like their Words + Music series and Origins. Coming June 1, Breakthrough promises to be as unique as it is captivating. Let's learn a little bit more about the series.

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Sara Bareilles has received two Tony Award nominations, three Primetime Emmy Award nominations and eight Grammy Award nominations, garnering a 2020 Grammy in the category of Best American Roots Performance for her song “Saint Honesty”. On Broadway, she composed music and lyrics for Waitress, and stepped into the lead role in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Other musical credits include a song on the Tony Award-nominated score for SpongeBob SquarePants and Emmy Award-nominated appearance as Mary Magdalene in NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live. Bareilles produced original music and executive produced the musical drama series Little Voice, teaming up with Jessie Nelson, J.J. Abrams, and Apple. She plays Dawn Solano on the Emmy-nominated musical comedy series Girls5eva, and recently stared as The Baker’s Wife in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods.

The show will follow five artists. Across a ten-episode season, they will face a number of challenges. These include mastering the art of the hook, crafting originals, and covering well-known songs with a meaningful personal connection to these artists. The series will also push the artists to expand into genres and styles they're unaccustomed to. As the journey progresses, artists will get rewarded for winning challenges. These prizes can help in their overall quest to win the competition and be crowned the Breakthrough artist. Prizes include: bonus vocal coaching lessons, studio time, and recording gear. Through it all, competing artists will be guided by a team of superstars. Click on their image to learn more about their careers and what they're bringing to Breakthrough.

Breakthrough premieres on June 1 and will be available via Audible and wherever you get your podcasts and, following each episode’s debut, you can listen to full versions of songs on Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to music.

Sara Bareilles

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Kelly Rowland is a four-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, television executive producer, New York Times bestselling author, and global pop superstar. On her own, she is a platinum-certified recording artist with over 40 million records sold, but she’s also known as a founding member of Destiny’s Child, one of the bestselling female groups of all time. Kelly Rowland has released four successful studio albums and an EP, all of which have topped music charts in several countries around the globe. Kelly has guest starred on several hit sitcoms including American Soul, Being Mary Jane, L.A.’s Finest as a recurring guest opposite Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba, and she was the executive producer of her very own docuseries, Chasing Destiny. She co-produced a digital series called milk + honey with EPs Idris Elba and Issa Rae. She has been a judge for the immensely popular shows The X Factor (UK 2011) and the U.S. version of The X Factor (2013), and was a guest mentor on NBC’s The Voice (U.S.), working alongside Jennifer Hudson in 2017. She joined the lineup as a judge on The Voice Australia in 2020. She is a New York Times bestselling author for her book Always with You, Always with Me and has starred and executive produced a trilogy of holiday films for Lifetime: Merry Liddle Christmas, Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding, and Merry Liddle Christmas Baby.

Kelly Rowland

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Tony and Grammy Award winning actor, rapper, writer and producer Daveed Diggs is widely known for originating the dual roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in the Broadway sensation, HAMILTON. He received a Tony and Grammy award in 2016 for his stage performance in addition to a 2021 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the Disney+ version. This Spring, Diggs will star in the live-action film adaptation of Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID, where he will voice the role of Sebastian, directed by Rob Marshall and releasing on May 26, 2023. He will also star in AppleTV’s Extrapolations, which will begin streaming on March 17th, 2023. Diggs serves as the co-creator, co-executive producer and writer of the Starz series, Blindspotting, which will premiere its second season at SXSW this March before premiering on air this Spring. Additionally, he lends his voice to Apple TV+’s hit animated musical sitcom, Central Park, he will also lend his voice to Disney+’s new drama series, The Crossover.

Daveed Diggs

Sara Bareilles Judge/Mentor

Kelly Rowland Judge/Mentor

Daveed Diggs Host

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