VIDEO: Sara Bareilles Performs 'What the World Needs Now' on NBC 4th OF JULY Special

Tony nominee Sara Bareilles performed the Broadway for Orlando song "What the World Needs Now Is Love' on NBC's annual MACY'S 4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR, which aired last night, July 4th. Watch the appearance below!

More 4th of July performances:

Click here to watch Sutton Foster open PBS's A CAPITOL FOURTH with a patriotic medley

Click here to watch HAMILTON's Christopher Jackson perform "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" on A CAPITOL FOURTH

Click here to watch the cast of ON YOUR FEET, Amber Riley & Alisan Porter perform on A CAPITOL FOURTH

Sara Bareilles has received five Grammy nominations throughout her career, which include Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Love Song." Bareilles' highly anticipated sophomore release "Kaleidoscope Heart" was released September 2010, and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. The album yielded the hit single "King of Anything," which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was certified platinum by the RIAA. In 2012 she released her highly revered "Once Upon Another Time" EP, produced by singer/songwriter Ben Folds.

Her highly acclaimed third studio album "The Blessed Unrest," released in 2013 via Epic Records, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard album chart and was nominated for two GRAMMY AWARDS including the coveted Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance for her hit single "Brave." Her New York Times best-selling book, Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) In Song, was released in the fall of 2015 by Simon & Schuster.

Making her Broadway debut, Bareilles wrote the music for the new show WAITRESS for which she received her first Tony Award nomination for Best Score. "What's Inside: Songs from Waitress," her most recent solo studio album, is out now on Epic Records.

Photo by: Charles Sykes/NBC