Alessia Cara

Her debut song Here was released in the year 2015. The single was a hit and received praise from both listeners and critics alike. The song reached the top spot on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named the song one of the Top Songs of the year. Her debut Know It All album in the same year. The third track, Scars to Your Beautiful was among five tracks that made it to the top charts on Billboard as well as the Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200 as well as Billboard Hot 100. Based on an interview she gave in conjunction with Rap Up, the song held a lot of meaning for many people who listened to her personal story of learning to accept and love your self. Cara includes messages of love and kindness throughout her songs. The inspiration for her music comes from Cara's personal struggle to overcome mental health problems as well as insomnia. In a Reuters interview she describes the album as being half turbulent and half perfected. She found that therapy has helped her develop and encourages other artists to follow the same path. Alessia Cara was born to Italian parents on the 11th of July 1996. Her parents gave her a guitar when she was 10, and it ignited her love for music. After three years, at 13 she started singing songs she loved via YouTube. It proved to be a fantastic method to demonstrate to the world the fact that she had ability and determination. Sweater Weather is one of the covers that resulted in her being noticed to be signed by EP Entertainment. This record label allowed her create the songs she wrote herself.