Alessia Cara

At 19 years old She released Here, her first single. It became a huge hit immediately which both the critics and the fans were awed by it. It peaked at number 19 among both Canadian Hot 100 as well as the Billboard Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named it as one of the top songs from 2015. She released her debut Know It All album in the year that followed. The third track, Scars to Your Beautiful is one of the five tracks to reach the top charts on Billboard as well as the Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100. It was a special track since, in light of the interview with Rap-Up that she gave many of the listeners could identify with her journey of growing to accept themselves as a person and doubting her. Cara has earned a name for incorporating messages about mental health, kindness and self-love into her songs. All of it is a result of her life experience, as she had to deal with issues of mental health as well as insomnia. According to a Reuters interview, her album is described as both tumultuous yet perfected. She found growth through therapy and encourages other people to seek help if necessary. Alessia Cara was born to Italian parents on July 11, 1996. Her parents gifted her with a guitar when she was barely the age of 10. It ignited her passion for music. In the age of 13, she started covering songs she enjoyed on YouTube in order to show her fans that she had talent and could not resist the opportunity to establish music as a profession. Indeed one of the covers Sweater Weather ended up getting her attention by a record label named EP Entertainment which allowed her to write and create the songs.