About Alessia Cara
A Canadian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Alessia Caracciolo is professionally known as Alessia Cara. She wrote poetry and did theater as a kid, and began playing the guitar at the age of ten. She is well known for making acoustic covers of several hit songs and posting them on YouTube. Her rendering of Justin "Timberlake's Mirror" and "Amy Winehouse's Valerie" particularly turned viral on social media. She began her YouTube channel when she was thirteen years old. She got endorsed by Taylor Swift on social media in July 2015 for creating a playful acoustic cover of her "Bad Blood" song on BBC Radio 1's Piano Sessions. On 13th November 2015, she made her debut studio album "Know-It-All" which was certified as "Gold" in the U.S. and reached #9 at Billboard 200. Similarly, Alessia first appeared in the musical show "Backstage Diaries" as herself in 2015 in just one episode. As recent news, she has reposted her "AGT" performance of "Scars To Your Beautiful" which has made Roberta Battaglia unbelievable. In addition, she has gained several awards in her careers such as ASCAP Pop Music Awards, Canadian Radio Music Awards, Grammy Awards, and many others.
Famous For
- Being a Canadian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
- For making acoustic covers of a number of hit songs and posting it on YouTube.
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Early Life of Alessia Cara
On 11th July 1996, Alessia took birth with the real name or full name of Alessia Caracciolo in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. She belongs to Canadian nationality whereas she is from mixed ethnicity. Her family is from Calabria. Her father was born in Canada to Italian parents, and her mother is an Italian immigrant. Similarly, she is from Christianity religion. Cancer is her zodiac sign and white is her race. She celebrates her birthday on 11th July of every year and she has celebrated her 24th birthday as of 2020. She is the daughter of Vincenzo Caracciolo (father) and Enza Ciccione (mother). As well, she has a younger sister named Danica Caracciolo. She attended Cardinal Ambrozic Catholic Secondary School.
Career of Alessia Cara
- Alessia Cara commenced her singing career at the age of 13 by starting her own YouTube channel where she posted covers of songs that she performed and launched her official debut single through Def Jam in April 2015. Her debut single was chosen as the "can't-miss" track by "Spin", as well as being listed as a "must hear song" by "Cosmopolitan" on 5th May 2015.
- After then, she made her television debut on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on 29th July 2015, as well as released the EP "Four Pink Walls", containing five songs, including her debut single. On 13th November 2015, her debut album, "Know-It-All", was released and launched a music video for "Wild Things" on 7th March 2016.
- Furthermore, she was announced to be one of the supporting acts of British alternative rock band Coldplay in the European and North American legs of their A Head Full of Dreams Tour in April 2016.
- She was seen in a re-released version of the song "Wild" by Troye Sivan on 23rd June 2016, which was launched on 22nd July 2016.
- After that, on 3rd November 2016, the music video for her single "How Far I'll Go", from the Disney film "Moana", was released and received over 230 million views on YouTube, as well as launched a music video for "Seventeen" on the following year of 15th December.
- The music video of the song "Stay" by Zedd featuring Cara was released on 18th April 2017, as well she featured on the song "1-800-273-8255" from Logic's "Everybody" album.
- She launched a teaser video following a week of cryptic Twitter posts on 1st June 2018, as well as posted lyrics to a new song on her social media accounts for fans to piece together on 9th June.
- The single, entitled "Growing Pains", was released on 15th June 2018, which music video was released on 20th June of the following year.
- Likewise, she covered the Elton John song "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" on his tribute album "Revamp" in 2018, and on 11th July 2018, her single, titled "A Little More", was launched.
- Additionally, the Canadian Football League announced that she would be the halftime performer at the 106th Grey Cup on 29th September 2018.
- She collaborated with Italian singer Eros Ramazzotti for the song "Vale per sempre", from the album "Vita Ce ne" in October 2018 as well as she launched another song, entitled "Trust My Lonely" on 5th October 2018.
- Similarly, on 30th December 2018, she launched her second studio album, "The Pains of Growing" which debuted at number 1 on the US iTunes Pop Charts, in less than two hours after its release.
- Subsequently, she released the song titled, "Out of Love" in January 2019 and collaborated with Alec Benjamin on "Let Me Down Slowly", which was released on 7th January 2019.
- She announced ths she would join Shawn Mendes as the opening act on his self-titled world tour for the European, United Kingdom, and United States legs on 21st February 2019.
- She announced the release of an EP, "This Summer" in July 2019, as well she also announced that she will be adding a new leg of "The Pains of Growing Tour," visiting various US cities in October and November.
- Her first single of the EP, "Ready" was released on 22nd July, second single, "Rooting for You" on 9th August, third single, "OKAY OKAY" on 23rd August, fourth single, "October" on 3rd September.
- She was also featured in Bastille's song "Another Place" which peaked in the number 18 at Billboard Hot Rock Songs.
- Then, she launched into her first Christmas song, "Make It To Christmas", which peaked at number 1 at Billboard Canadian AC on 7th November.
- In the recent year 2020, Cara released "I Choose," her original song for the movie "The Willoughbys" on 3rd April as well as launched an EP, "This Summer: Live Off The Floor" on 117th July. And all of her proceeds from the EP for the next 21 years are going to Save The Children.
- As a piece of fresh news, she has reposted her "AGT" performance of "Scars To Your Beautiful" which has made Roberta Battaglia unbelievable. "America's Got Talent" airs Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on City TV.
Awards and Achievements of Alessia Cara
- ASCAP Pop Music Awards
- Canadian Radio Music Awards
- Grammy Awards
- iHeartRadio Music Awards
- MTV Video Music Awards
- Radio Disney Music Awards
- SOCAN Awards
- Streamy Awards
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Personal Life of Alessia Cara
Reflecting on Alessia Cara's personal life, she is an unmarried lady. But regarding her dating life, she was in a relationship with singer Kevin Garrett from 2016. They had dated each other for a couple of years, but the couple splits their relationship in 2018. Whereas, she is not documented to have any boyfriend as a present. So we can assume that she is living a single life. May the reason behind living a single life be to focus on a victorious career. Of course, she's stunning, she's popular and irresistible, and so it's quite natural to have men follow her everywhere. She's as beautiful in her real life as she appears in her pictures. Furthermore, talking about her sexual orientation, she is straight.
Net Worth of Alessia Cara
Cara is among those few individuals that have such a wide range of experience and remains true to whatever she embarks on to. She has reached great heights in her career already, and she still has a lot more to do. Moving towards her net worth, it is around $4 million dollars as of 2020 whereas she also earns a handsome amount of salary too, which is around thousands of dollars per year. With her hard work and the luck by her side, she can double the amount of wealth she has of today. She is sincere in her work. In addition, her principal source of income is from singing career and she is happy and satisfied with it. Alessia has appeared in "The Sound Drop" commercial from where she earns a fine amount of money.
Body Measurement of Alessia Cara
Alessia stands at a perfect height of 5 ft 1 in or 155 cm whereas her body weight is around 55 kg or 121 lbs. She had the perfect body combined with good looks. She could carry off any look with great simplicity. Her sensible thoughts with a pleasant sense of humor greatly attract her spectators to their TV screen. She is a lady with dark brown hair and eye color. Regarding her body build type, it is average and body measurements are 34-26-35 in or 86-66-89 cm. Her usual exercise schedule has guided her to be in a marvelous body posture with appropriate body measurement.
