Alessia Cara

At the age of 19, she released her debut single Here. The single garnered a lot of praise and was well-received by both listeners and critics. It reached number 19 in both Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100. Even Rolling Stone named it one of the most memorable songs of the year. This is the same year that she dropped Know It All. Scars to Your Beautiful is one of the five songs she wrote that made it to Billboard's charts. This particular track was special due to her interview with rapper Rap-Up, many of the listeners were inspired by her story of self-doubt, and her journey to learn how to be a better person. Cara incorporates messages about compassion and self-love into her music. The inspiration for her music is drawn from her own personal journey as she has suffered from mental health problems and insomnia. Reuters said that she described her album "half turbulent, and half finished". The singer says that she experienced growth during therapy. Alessia Cara has been a Canadian artist since 1996. Her parents have Italian heritage. Her first guitar was purchased from her parents at the time she was 10, which ignited the passion for music. A few years later, at the age of 13 she began covering her favorite songs through YouTube a major media platform to show the world that she possessed the talent skills and the determination to be a professional singer. Indeed one of the covers Sweater Weather was able to get her attention by a record label named EP Entertainment which allowed her to create and write songs.