Alessia Cara

She released her debut single, Here in 2015 at the age of 19. It was a huge hit and received praise from both listeners and critics alike. The song peaked at 19th at both Canadian Hot 100 as well as Billboard Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named the song one of the Top Songs of 2015. The same year, she dropped her debut album Know It All with the third song 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 and Billboard Hot 100. It was unique in that many people related to the interview she did with the rapper Rap-Up on her journey to learn to love and embrace herself. Cara has a reputation for including messages on mental health, kindness and self-love into her songs. All of it is a result of her personal experience as she been battling mental health issues and insomnia. According to an Reuters interview, she described her album as half tumultuous as well as half-perfected. Her growth was aided by therapy and she encourages others to seek help if necessary. Alessia Cara is a Canadian musician who was born July 11, 1996, to parents with Italian origin. Her parents gifted her with an instrument at barely 10 years old. This sparked her enthusiasm for music. Three years later at the age of 13 she started covering her most loved songs on YouTube a major media platform to prove to the world she had the talents as well as the courage to make it an artist. Indeed one of the covers Sweater Weather ended up getting her noticed by a record company called EP Entertainment which allowed her to create and write music for her.