Sara Maria Forsberg

Despite being as famous as she is, practically nothing is known about her personal life. She guards her personal life very carefully from the media.

Forsberg was born on May 2, 1994 in Pietarsaari (another Swedish name of which is Jakobstad), Finland. Her mother was Finnish while her father was Swedish, although he spoke in fluent Finnish.

As her parents were Baptist missionaries and devoted to missionary work, Forsberg’s childhood included travelling widely. She lived in Texas for five years and then in the U.S for a year.

When she was six, her parents settled back to Finland permanently.

Ardent music lovers that her parents were, Forsberg’s father had asked her to choose an instrument to start practicing when she was eight years old. Although double bass was her first choice, when her father introduced her to cello, she could not help but fall in love with the instrument. Since her mid teen days, she started studying voice formally and also sang at the churches.

The start to Forsberg’s career was sensational. At the mere age of 19, she posted a video titled ‘What Languages Sound Like to Foreigners’ on her YouTube channel, ‘Smoukahontas Official’ (her official channel is now ‘SAARA’). It spread like wild fire across the globe becoming one of the major hits of 2014. The video was released on March 3rd and it has been viewed over 17 million times.

This gave her an opportunity to come to ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ which gave her much recognition in the music industry and she caught the eyes of many producers. The show was aired on 7th April, 2014. She was on the show for around 180 seconds, and she impressed Ellen so much that she gifted Sara a camera and a tripod. The video is called ‘The Multilingual Gibberish Girl’ on YouTube.

When Forsberg went to the Ellen DeGeneres show, the entire trip was documented by MTV and released as a short series, ‘Sara Goes LA’. The series was later made available on YouTube as well.

Her mimicking skills were also the talk of the town. By mostly using non-existent words, she could mimic accents and speech melodies of various languages including that of the American with a California accent, Japanese with Estuary English, French, Spanish, Italian, Swedish and Arabic to name a few. This generated a lot of praise for her from various media houses in different countries.

Forsberg re-impersonated few of the languages from her former video and added a couple of new ones in her first sequel. Those included ‘Something African’ and ‘Scottish’ which received a warm welcome by the listeners.