Alessia Cara

At the age of 19, she released her debut single Here. It became a huge hit immediately with both critics as well as admirers praised the song. In the Canadian Hot 100, and Billboard Hot 100, ranked it as 19. Even Rolling Stone listed the song as one of the Top Songs of 2015. The same year, she also released Know It All. Scars to Your Beautiful is one of the five songs she wrote that made it to the Billboard charts. It was a special track because, based on her Rap-Up interview she gave many of people who listened to her music could relate to her experience in learning to love themselves as well as doubting herself. Cara's songs be filled with messages of kindness, self-love and mental health. Every song Cara sings comes directly from her struggle with insomnia, mental illness as well as other problems. According to a Reuters interview, her album has been described as a semi-tumultuous and half-perfected. She says she grew through therapy and she encourages anyone else to seek out assistance when needed. Alessia Cara, a Canadian musician born in Canada on 11 July 1996, was a daughter of Italian parents of Italian descent. The guitar was gifted to her from her parents at the time she was 10 years old, which sparked her musical passion. She started covering the songs she loved at 13 to prove to the world she was a talented musician and the confidence required to become the next singer. A cover of one of her songs, Sweater Weather, was the one that got her attention. EP Entertainment gave her an opportunity to develop and write her own songs.