Alessia Cara

When she was 19 at the time, she dropped her debut single Here. The track received praise by music critics as well as listeners. The song peaked at number 19 on both the Canadian Hot 100 as well as Billboard Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named it as one of the top songs of 2015. In that same year she dropped her debut album Know It All with the third track Scars to Your Beautiful being one of five original tracks which peaked on the Billboard charts, including The Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200 as well as the Billboard Hot 100. In her interview with Rap-Up, many listeners spoke about Cara's self-love journey and her doubts. Cara incorporates messages about love and kindness in her songs. The inspiration for her music is derived from her own struggle to conquer mental health issues as well as insomnia. Interview with Reuters, she described her album as "half tumultuous" as well as "half perfect". Therapy helped her grow and urges other artists to follow the same path. Alessia Cara, a Canadian musician, was born in Canada on 11 July 1996 of Italian parents of Italian descent. Her parents gifted her with a guitar when she was 10 and this brought her to music. At 13 years old, she started covering her most loved songs through YouTube one of the biggest media platforms in order to demonstrate to the world that she possessed the talent skills and determination to develop into a professional singer. In fact, one of her cover tracks Sweater Weather became the track which got her attention by EP Entertainment. They allowed her to compose and record her own songs.