As a singer, Forsberg was signed to Capitol Records in 2014 and released her debut single "Ur Cool" in April 2015, which went on to become a top ten hit in her home country of Finland.
[7][8][9][10] Forsberg spent a few years in a music academy in Jakobstad and later studied to become a chef before embarking on a singing career.
[14] Since her video "What Languages Sound Like to Foreigners" was posted on YouTube on 3 March 2014 on her channel Smoukahontas Official (which subsequently has been changed into SAARA), it has been seen over 20 million times as of June 2018.
Capitol Records chairman and CEO Steve Barnett said that the only artists that he had the same feeling about other than Forsberg were Adele and Sam Smith.
[citation needed] On 2 May 2018, her birthday, Saara released her second album Almost Acoustic EP with four new songs and one remix.
In July 2015, it was revealed that Forsberg has writing credit for the K-pop band Girls' Generation song "You Think" in their album Lion Heart.
[34][35] In October 2014, it was revealed that Forsberg has a small role in the Hong Kong-Chinese-American film Skiptrace directed by Finnish director Renny Harlin.
[36] In December 2015, the news broke that 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.
[40] In 2018, Forsberg went on appearing on Finnish TV, in spring on the contest Pallon ympäri ("Around The Globe"), where she has been travelling around the world by performing tasks as one of the three competitors.
[46] The trip was documented in a short series titled Sara Goes LA which was produced by Finnish broadcaster MTV and has also been published on YouTube since.
[47] 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.