Alessia Cara: A Quick-Read Bio Revealed
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Full Name: Alessia Caracciolo
Born: July 11, 1996
Origin: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Genres: Pop – R&B
Zodiac: Cancer
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Early Start
- Originally from Mississauga, Ontario, Alessia Cara attended Cardinal Ambrozic Catholic Secondary School in Brampton, but her parents are from Calabria, Italy; her father was born in Canada to Italian parents, and her mother is an Italian immigrant.
- She speaks Italian fluently.
- She wrote poetry as a child and performed in theatre.
- As a child, she taught herself how to play guitar and learned various songs at the age of 10.
- Her YouTube channel was launched at 13 and featured covers of songs she performed.
- Her career model at the time was Justin Bieber.
Career Journey
- 2014: Cara moved to New York together with her father and inked a management deal with EP Entertainment.
- 2015: Cara launched her official debut single through Def Jam entitled “Here”.
- 2016: She commenced her first headlining tour, the “Know-It-All Tour” reaching various US and Canadian cities. Her music video for “Seventeen” came out (December).
- 2018: The single, “Growing Pains”, was made public. (July) “A Little More” was launched. (October) – She worked with Italian singer Eros Ramazzotti for the single “Vale per sempre”, from the album Vita ce n’è. (November) – The music video for the song “Babies” by Kyle featuring Cara was publicized. (December) – Cara’s second studio album, The Pains of Growing was released which topped US iTunes Pop Charts.
- 2019: Cara worked with Alec Benjamin on “Let Me Down Slowly” and with American singer and songwriter Lauv on the song “Canada” on Lauv’s debut album, How I’m Feeling (March). Cara launched “I Choose”, for the 2020 Netflix animated movie The Willoughbys, where she made her first voice-role on a film for the character “Jane Willoughby” (April). Her first live EP, This Summer: Live Off The Floor came out (July).
- 2021: Cara’s album In the Meantime was launched together with the music video for the song “Best Days” (September). The 2021 edition of Yearly Departed came out on Amazon Prime Video, housing Cara performing “My Heart Will Go On” at the end of the production (December).
Awards & Recognition
- American Music Awards (2 nominations)
- won 2 ASCAP Pop Music Awards
- BBC Music Awards nomination
- BET Awards nomination
- Billboard Music Awards (2 nominations)
- Canadian Radio Music Awards (3 awards out of 4 nominations)
- Canadian Screen Awards nomination
- and many others
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Cara’s parents gave her a guitar for her 10th birthday, and she could barely put it down — but she mostly kept her music to herself.
- She studied drama and theatre in school and only then began performing in talent shows.
- At 13, Cara began posting cover songs to her own YouTube channel. One of them, a cover of The Neighbourhood’s “Sweater Weather,” got noticed by the daughter of a record executive who showed it to her father, EP Entertainment founder Tony Perez.
Artist’s Favorites
Food:Â | Hot wings |
Top-rated Disney movie:Â | Alice in the wonderland |
Color:Â | Black |
Preferred city to visit:Â | London |
Australian Unwrapped’s Chosen Song from Alessia Cara:
Scars To Your Beautiful
Length: 3:50
Release: 2016
Opening Lyrics:
She goes, unnoticed she knows, no limits
She craves, attention she praises, an image
She prays to be, sculpted by the sculptor
Deeper than the eyes can find it
Maybe we have made her blind
So she tries to cover up her pain
And cut her woes away
‘Cause covergirls don’t cry
After their face is made
You should know you’re beautiful just the way you are
And you don’t have to change a thing
The world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful
We’re stars and we’re beautiful
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