Alessia Cara Age, Height & Biography

Alessia Cara is a Canadian singer and songwriter known for the songs Here, Scars to Your Beautiful and Stay with Zedd. Born in Brampton, Ontario, in 1996, she became the first Canadian to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2018, and she has won 4 Juno Awards. She is known for her quiet, confessional songwriting and her powerful voice.

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Who Is Alessia Cara?

Alessia Cara is a Canadian singer and songwriter known for the songs Here, Scars to Your Beautiful, Stay with Zedd and 1-800-273-8255 with Logic and Khalid. She became the first Canadian to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2018, and she has won 4 Juno Awards. She is one of Canada’s best-known pop stars.

Cara is known for her quiet, confessional songwriting and her powerful voice, and she has released the albums Know-It-All, The Pains of Growing, In the Meantime and Love & Hyperbole. She also voiced the character Diane in the animated film The Willoughbys in 2020.

Early Life & Background

Alessia Caracciolo was born on 11 July 1996 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, to Italian-Canadian parents from Calabria, Italy. She grew up in Brampton and began posting acoustic covers of songs on YouTube at the age of 13, teaching herself to play the guitar. She attended Cardinal Ambrozic Catholic Secondary School in Brampton.

After graduating from high school, Cara signed to Def Jam Recordings and EP Entertainment, and she released her debut single, Here, in 2015. The song became a hit, reaching the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and it introduced her to the world as a new voice in pop music.

Career

Cara released her debut EP, Four Pink Walls, in 2015, and her debut album, Know-It-All, followed later that year. The album featured the singles Here and Scars to Your Beautiful, and it reached the top 10 in Canada and the top 20 in the United States. She won the Juno Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2016.

In 2017 she released two more hit singles: Stay, her collaboration with Zedd, which reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, and 1-800-273-8255, her collaboration with Logic and Khalid, which reached number three. The following year she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, becoming the first Canadian to win the award.

Cara followed Know-It-All with The Pains of Growing in 2018, featuring the singles Growing Pains and Trust My Lonely, and In the Meantime in 2021, featuring Sweet Dream and Shapeshifter. In 2025 she released her fourth studio album, Love & Hyperbole, featuring the singles Go Outside of My Head and Dead Man. She continues to record and tour, and she remains one of Canada’s best-known pop stars.

Facts About Alessia Cara

• She was the first Canadian to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, in 2018.
• She has won 4 Juno Awards.
• Here reached the top five of the Billboard Hot 100.
• 1-800-273-8255 with Logic and Khalid reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Stay with Zedd reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100.

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