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 feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.
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.
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."
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.
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.
The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.
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.
Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle with every day.
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.
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.
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?
Every time I sing, it it's a reminder to myself that I have to be confident.
Everywhere I go, every city, they're always like, 'What's in the water in Canada? What's in the water in Toronto?'
Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.