Alessia Cara Biography

Alessia Cara is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Brampton, Canada. She is currently signed to EP Entertainment/Def Jam Recordings and is best known for "Here'", her debut single from her upcoming debut album. Prior to her work with EP Entertainment/Def Jam, Cara was known for her acoustic song covers on YouTube.
Alessia Cara is from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, a suburb of the greater Toronto area. She is half Italian. As a child she wrote poetry and did theater. At the age of 10 she began playing guitar and taught herself how to play various songs. At the age of 13 she began her own YouTube channel where she posted covers of songs that she performed.