Alessia Cara

Alessia Cara

Canadian singer and songwriter Alessia Cara (full last name: Caracciolo) made her recorded debut in 2015, though she started racking up YouTube views -- with acoustic covers of popular songs across several genres -- four years earlier. Upon graduating from high school in her native Brampton, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Cara opted to devote a year to music rather than go straight to college. She continued to regularly upload YouTube clips and landed a major-label recording contract with the Def Jam label. Matched up with Andrew "Pop" Wansel, Warren "Oak" Felder, and Coleridge Tillman, a trio of songwriters and producers with dozens of R&B and pop hits between them, Cara co-wrote and recorded the distinctive wallflower anthem "Here" and had the song released as a single in May 2015. Featuring a sample of Isaac Hayes' "Ike's Rap II," previously utilized by Portishead for "Glory Box" and by Tricky for "Hell Is Round the Corner," its streams numbered in the millions prior to the premiere of its official video. An album was planned for release later in the year.

Legal name

Alessia Caracciolo

Type

Person

Born

Jul 11, 1996

Born in

Mississauga

Country

Canada

IPI code

00773469400
00773469599

ISNI code

0000000455504513

Rating

Socials

External Links

BBC Music Page

www.bbc.co.uk

Official Homepage

www.alessiacara.com

Purchase For Mail-order

www.amazon.com

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