Alessia Cara

At 19 years old, she released Here, her first single. The track was highly praised by critics as well as the public. It reached the top 19 of both Billboard Hot 100 in Canada as well as the Canadian Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named it as one of the top songs of 2015. That same year she debuted her first album Know It All, the track Scars to Your Beautiful ranked in the Billboard Hot 100 as well as the Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200. The track was also among the first five songs. In her Rap-Up Interview the listeners discussed Cara's struggle to find self-love as well as her fears. Cara includes messages of love and kindness in her songs. The music she sings is reflective of her personal struggle with insomnia and mental health. Reuters stated that she calls the album "half tumultuous, half perfected". She describes her growth through therapy, and encourages anyone else to seek out help when necessary. Alessia Cara is a Canadian performer who was born on the 11th of July, 1996 to parents who are of Italian heritage. Her parents gifted her with their first guitar when she was 10. This was her beginning musically. In 2013, she covered her favorite songs for YouTube which is a well-known platform for media. The goal was to prove that she had both the talent and confidence to pursue a career as an artist. In fact, one of the covers Sweater Weather got noticed by a record label called EP Entertainment which allowed her to compose and record her tracks.