Alessia Cara

In the year 2015, at age 19, she published her first debut single Here. It received praise by music critics as well as listeners. In the Canadian Hot 100, and Billboard Hot 100, ranked it as 19. Even Rolling Stone ranked the song as one of 2015's Top Songs. Her debut Know It All album in the same year. The third track, Scars to Your Beautiful was one of five tracks which reached the top spots on Billboard including Canadian Albums Chart Billboard 200 as well as Billboard Hot 100. According to an interview Cara did together with Rap Up, this particular song had a lot of meaning for many of the listeners who related to her tale of accepting and loving yourself. Cara's music is known to include messages of kindness, self-love and mental health. She's been in the midst of insomnia and anxiety, which affected her life. In a Reuters interview, she's described her album as half-tumultuous and half-perfected. Therapy helped her grow and advises people to seek out help when needed. Alessia Cara has been a Canadian artist since 1996. Her parents have Italian heritage. Her parents gifted her with her first guitar when she was just 10 years old. That was her first step with music. She began covering her favourite songs at age 13, to prove to everyone that she had the skills and the determination required to be a singer. Sweater Weather is among these covers which led to her being discovered to be signed by EP Entertainment. This record label let her write her own songs.