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'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that. It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be glamorous, and that's perfectly fine, and that's amazing. If I were that style, then I would do that. I'd wear heels every day, and I'd strut around in a dress, but that's not me.
I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.
We all act like we know everything in life, but nobody really does. That's what I want people to realize. For me, I know that I'm the same person. Nothing has changed. My family and friends know that.
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.
No matter what I put out, no matter what genre - because I feel like I'm going to experiment with everything - I hope people will see that it's true to me, that it's honest, and nobody ever thinks that I'm inauthentic.
It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.
I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.
YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."
I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.
The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.
I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.
If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.
With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.