Alessia Cara

When she was 19 at the time, she dropped Here, her first single. It was an instant hit with both critics as well as the fans were awed by it. It peaked at number 19 on both the Canadian Hot 100 and Billboard Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone called the song one of their Top Songs in 2015. It was the same time when she dropped Know It All. Scars to Your Beautiful One of her five original songs included on the Billboard Charts, including Billboard Hot 100 for Canada and Billboard 200 for the Canadian Albums Charts. The song was unique due to the fact that many listeners were able to relate to the conversation she conducted in collaboration with Rap-Up regarding her struggles to learn to love and accept her. Cara incorporates messages about kindness and loving yourself throughout her songs. Her music is an expression of her own struggles with insomnia and mental health. According to an Reuters interview, she describes her album as half-tumultuous and half perfected. The singer says that she discovered her development in therapy. Alessia Cara grew up in Toronto in Canada. She was born on July 11, 1996 to parents of Italian descent. She was given a guitar by her parents after she was 10, which ignited her musical passion. At 13 years old, she began covering her favorite songs via YouTube an important media platform to prove to the world she possessed the talent skills and the determination to be a professional singer. Indeed one of the covers Sweater Weather ended up getting noticed by a record label named EP Entertainment which allowed her to create and write songs.