Alessia Cara

She released her debut single, Here in 2015, when she was just aged 19. This single received high praise both from listeners and critics. It ranked at number 19 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named the smash one of the best Songs of 2015. That was the year she released Know It All. Scars to Your Beautiful is one of five original songs that reached the charts of Billboard. It was a special track due to the interview with Rap-Up that she conducted, many of the listeners could relate to her experience in growing to accept themselves as a person while battling with her. Cara is well-known for her ability to incorporate lyrics about mental health care as well as self-love and kindness into her music. Her music is a reflection of her personal struggle with mental illness and insomnia. In a conversation with Reuters the singer stated that her album is "half turbulent" and "half completed". She found that therapy has helped her develop and encourages other artists to follow the same path. Alessia Cara, a Canadian performer, was born in Canada the 11th of July, 1996 to Italian descent parents. Her parents gave her an instrument when she was barely 10. This ignited her love for music. In the age of 13 she began to cover songs she loved on YouTube to prove to people that she had the talent to be a singer and had the courage to pursue the career of a musician. Indeed, one of her songs she covered Sweater Weather could be the track which got her attention by EP Entertainment. They allowed her to record and compose her tracks.