Tamar Kaprelian sat down with Hollywire in Los Angeles to talk about everything from how her music career began to where she gets inspired to write new music. The twenty-three year old also discussed working with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder and how he helped her ultimately decide on the name for her debut album, ‘Sinner or a Saint’. “Every lyric idea, every melody idea that spews out of that brain of his is really brilliant,” Tamar said about Ryan. The interview also features a brief clip of Tamar doing an acoustic performance of ‘New Day’, which was recently featured on ‘American Idol’. Watch the interview via YouTube below.

In the final video from her sessions at Jack Johnson’s Solar-Powered Plastic Plant, Tamar Kaprelian performed one of her favorite songs, ‘Delicate Soul’. Past videos of Tamar’s sessions at Jack Johnson’s studio include performances of her single, ‘New Day’, as well as ‘Should Have Known Better’, ‘Raining in Paradise’, and ‘Sinner or a Saint’. All of the songs can be found on Tamar’s debut album, ‘Sinner or a Saint’, available now. Watch the ‘Delicate Soul’ performance via YouTube below.

Tamar Kaprelian recently performed her song ‘Should Have Known Better’ at Jack Johnson’s Solar-Powered Plastic Plant studio in Los Angeles. The track is from Tamar’s first studio album, ‘Sinner or a Saint’. Watch it via Vevo below.

Tamar Kaprelian performed her debut single ‘New Day’ live from The Solar Powered Plastic Plant, Jack Johnson’s studio in Los Angeles. Watch the acoustic performance via YouTube below.

Tamar Kaprelian is in New York City this week promoting the release of her debut album ‘Sinner or a Saint’. The singer songwriter took to her Facebook page to say hello to her fans before her in store performance at Scoop NYC and her show at the Living Room tomorrow night. “Everyone in New York, please come out and say hello,” Tamar said. “I would love to meet all of you.” Watch the brief message below.

Tamar Kaprelian is celebrating the release of her Interscope Records debut ‘Sinner or a Saint’ today. The 22-year-old singer/songwriter sat down to discuss a few of her favorite tracks from the record and the story behind the album title and how excited she is to share these ten songs with the world.

“After eight years of lots of work, it’s so nice to finally have something that I can share with all of you,” Tamar says in the video. “There are ten songs on the album, all of which I really feel define me both personally and artistically and I feel there are three songs that really are the cornerstones of the record,” which she identified as the single ‘New Day’, ‘Raining in Paradise’ and the title track ‘Sinner or a Saint’.

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Tamar Kaprelian is featured on AOL Music’s About to Pop, where the Los Angeles singer songwriter talked about what it was like to hear her new single ‘New Day’ on MTV’s ‘The Hills’. “I wrote ‘New Day’ on the piano a year ago, and it was incredible to see something that began so simply and organically be exposed to such a wide audience,” Tamar said. “It’s cool to see how something that contains so much of my raw emotions [is] interpreted by other people.” Check out the rest of the discussion at popeater.com and watch a behind the scenes video from a photo shoot below the cut. Continue reading →