Alessia Cara

When she was 19 She released her debut single Here. The single garnered a lot of praise and was well-received from critics as well as listeners. It was ranked in the top 19 on both Billboard Hot 100 in Canada and on the Canadian Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named it as one of the top songs of 2015. The same year she launched her first album Know It All, the track Scars to Your Beautiful ranked in the Billboard Hot 100 and Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200. It was also one of the original five songs. In her interview with Rap-Up the listeners discussed Cara's struggle to find self-love as well as her doubts. Cara has a reputation for including messages on the importance of mental health, kindness and self-love into her music. She has been struggling with anxiety and insomnia that has influenced her music. In a Reuters' interview, she has said that her album was half turbulent however, it is half finished. People have told her that she experienced growth during therapy. Alessia Cara is a Canadian artist who was born July 11, 1996, to parents who are of Italian descent. When she was just 10 years old her parents gave her a guitar which became the starting point of her love for music. Three years later, when she was 13 she started singing her most loved songs through YouTube. It proved to be a fantastic opportunity to show others that she possessed both ability and determination. Sweater Weather is among these covers which led to being discovered by EP Entertainment. This record label allowed her create the songs she wrote herself.