Alessia Cara

At the age of 19 at the time, she dropped Here, her first single. The single was a smash and garnered praise from critics and listeners alike. The song reached the top spot in both Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named it as one of the top songs of 2015. In that same year she debuted her album Know It All with the third track Scars to Your Beautiful being one of the five original songs which peaked on the Billboard charts, including The Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot 100. In her Rap-Up Interview the listeners discussed Cara's struggle to find self-love as well as her doubts. Cara's music is known to include messages of kindness as well as self-love and mental wellbeing. Cara has struggled with anxiety and insomnia, both of which has influenced her music. Reuters reported that she called the album "half tumultuous, half perfected". Her growth was aided through therapy. She also encourages her fellow singers when they need to seek assistance. Alessia Cara grew up in Toronto, Canada. She was born on July 11, 1996, to parents with Italian heritage. When she was 10 years old, her parents gifted her a guitar that became the foundation of her love for music. In the age of 13, she started covering songs she adored on YouTube in order to show the public that she had talent and brave enough to make a profession of an artist. Indeed one of the covers Sweater Weather got her noticed by a record label named EP Entertainment which allowed her to write and create the tracks.