Alessia Cara

At 19 years old At the age of 19, she dropped Here, her first single. This single received high praise as well from critics and listeners. The single peaked at the number 19 spot on both the Canadian Hot 100 and Billboard Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named the hit one of the Best Songs in 2015. The singer 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 that made it to the top charts on Billboard which included Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200 as well as Billboard Hot 100. The song was unique because many people related to the interview she conducted with Rap-Up regarding her struggles to learn to love and embrace herself. Cara has a reputation for her messages about wellbeing, kindness, and self-love within her songs. The music of Cara is directly from her struggles with mental illness and insomnia. According to a Reuters Interview, her album is described as both tumultuous yet perfected. The therapy she received helped her grow and urges other artists to follow the same path. Alessia Cara, a Canadian musician born in Canada on 11 July 1996. She was born to Italian descent parents. She was given a guitar by her parents before she turned 10 and this ignited her interest in music. At the age of 13 she began to record her own songs on YouTube which is a huge media platform to prove to the world she was gifted and courage to become an aspiring singer. In fact, one of her covers Sweater Weather was the song that made her the focus of EP Entertainment. They allowed her to write and record her songs.