Alessia Cara

Her debut song Here came out in 2015. It received lots of acclaim and was well received by both listeners and critics. It reached number 19 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named it one of the most memorable songs of the year. The singer released her debut Know It All album in the year that followed. The third single, Scars to Your Beautiful was the first of five tracks which reached the top spots on Billboard as well as the Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100. In her interview with Rap-Up, many listeners spoke about Cara's journey to self-love and her doubts. Cara incorporates messages about kindness and loving yourself into her music. The music of Cara is directly from her struggle with insomnia, mental illness as well as other problems. In a Reuters interview, she describes her album as half-tumultuous and half perfected. Her development was assisted by a therapy. She advises other people when they need to reach out for support. Alessia Cara has been a Canadian artist since the year 1996. Her parents have Italian origin. At the age of 10 old her parents gave her a guitar that became the beginning of her musical passion. At the age of 13she began covering songs she loved on YouTube in order to show her fans that she was a talented artist and was able to go after a career as musician. Indeed she covered one of her songs Sweater Weather was the track which got her attention by EP Entertainment. They allowed her to compose and record her own songs.