Alessia Cara

Her debut single Here in the year 2015 when she was 19. It quickly became a hit which both the critics and people who loved it praised it. It peaked at number 19 on both the Canadian Hot 100 as well as Billboard Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named the smash one of the best Songs in 2015. This year she dropped her debut album Know It All with the third track Scars to Your Beautiful being one of the five original songs which peaked on the Billboard charts, including the Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200 as well as the Billboard Hot 100. It was unique in that numerous people were able to relate to the interview she did with The Rap-Up crew about how she struggled to find love and admit to herself. Cara has a reputation for including messages on the importance of mental health, kindness and self-love within her songs. Every song Cara sings comes directly from her struggle with mental illness and insomnia. According to an Reuters interview she describes her album as half tumultuous and half mastered. She says she grew through therapy, and urges others to seek help whenever needed. Alessia Cara is a Canadian performer who was born on the 11th of July in 1996. Her parents are from Italian descent. Her parents gave her a guitar when she was just 10-years-old. This ignited her love for music. A few years later, at age 13, she started covering her most loved songs on YouTube an important media platform to prove to the world she was talented as well as the courage to make it an aspiring singer. One of her covers, Sweater Weather, was the first thing that made her famous. EP Entertainment gave her an opportunity to develop and record her own tracks.