Alessia Cara

At 19 years old at the time, she dropped Here, her first single. It was an instant hit with both critics as well as fans praised it. It peaked at number 19 on both the Canadian Hot 100 and Billboard Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone ranked the song among the 2015's Best Songs. The singer released her debut Know It All album in the year that followed. The third track, Scars to Your Beautiful was one of five tracks which reached the top spots on Billboard including Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100. In her Rap-Up interview, many listeners spoke about Cara's journey to self-love and her doubts. Cara has earned a name for including messages on the importance of mental health, kindness and self-love into her music. The music of Cara is directly from her struggle with insomnia, mental illness as well as other problems. According to a Reuters interview, the album is described as halfway tumultuous, half perfected. She found that therapy has helped her develop and encourages others to do the same. Alessia Cara grew up in Toronto, Canada. Her birth date was July 11, 1996 to parents with Italian descent. Her parents gave her a guitar when she was 10 and this ignited her love for music. She began covering her favorite songs when she was 13, to prove to the world she could sing and had the confidence required to become the next singer. Actually the cover tracks Sweater Weather became the song which got her attention by EP Entertainment. They allowed her to compose and create her own songs.