Alessia Cara

At 19 years old She released her debut single Here. It received lots of praise 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 as one of the top songs of 2015. The same year, she debuted her album Know It All with the third song Scars to Your Beautiful being one of the five original songs which peaked on the Billboard charts. This includes those of 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 the doubts she faced. Cara is famous for including messages about mental health compassion and self-love in her songs. She's been in the midst of anxiety and insomnia that affected her life. In an Reuters interview, she describes her album as half tumultuous and half well-crafted. Her growth was aided by therapy and she encourages others to seek out help when needed. Alessia Cara has been a Canadian musician since 1996. Her parents are of Italian heritage. Her parents gifted her with guitar at the age of 10 years old, which ignited her love for music. At the age of thirteen, she began singing songs she loved on YouTube in order to show people that she was talented and had the courage to make a profession of a musician. Indeed one of the covers Sweater Weather was able to get her attention by a label known as EP Entertainment which allowed her to write and create her tracks.