Alessia Cara

In the year 2015, at age 19, she debuted her first single Here. It quickly became a hit that both critics and fans praised the song. The track was ranked in the top 19 on both the Billboard Hot 100 in Canada and also on the Canadian Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named the hit one of the Best Songs of 2015. The same year, she debuted her album Know It All with the third track Scars to Your Beautiful being one of the five original songs that peaked at Billboard charts. This includes those of the Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200 as well as the Billboard Hot 100. In her Rap-Up Interview the listeners discussed Cara's struggle to find self-love as well as the doubts she faced. Cara integrates messages about kindness and loving yourself into her music. She's been in the midst of anxiety and insomnia that affected her life. In a Reuters' interview, she has described her album as half-tumultuous but half perfected. The singer says that she found her growth in therapy. Alessia Cara has been a Canadian artist since the year 1996. Her parents have Italian heritage. In 2010, her parents purchased her a brand new guitar that she was able to use to discover her love for music. At the age of 13, she started covering songs she adored on YouTube to prove to people that she was a talented artist and was able to go after a career as a musician. A cover of one of her songs, Sweater Weather, was the one that got her attention. EP Entertainment gave her the opportunity to create and record her own tracks.