Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara
Alessia Caracciolo, professionally known as Alessia Cara, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She is signed to EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings and is best known for "Here", her debut single from the debut studio album, Know-It-All, released November 13, 2015. A sleeper hit, the song reached the top 5 in the United States and the top 20 in Canada. Prior to her work for Def Jam, she produced acoustic covers on YouTube...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth11 July 1996
CityBrampton, Canada
CountryCanada
I was always so scared to sing in front of people. That was kind of my weird thing.
I wanted to get through high school anonymously.
I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.
I don't know how to talk to people I don't know.
I barely have time to think. But the best way to stay grounded is to take it one day at a time.
Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.
Everywhere I go, every city, they're always like, 'What's in the water in Canada? What's in the water in Toronto?'
Every time I sing, it it's a reminder to myself that I have to be confident.
As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don't want it to just be background music, you know?
I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.
I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad that there's artists like Lorde and Raury and Kehlani because they're showing other people that young people can have an opinion and a voice and do really well with it. I'm glad I can be one of those people.
Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle with every day.
The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.
It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.