Alessia Cara

What I love about Alessia Cara is that she won by being unvarnished. A Mississauga teenager posting covers from her bedroom, she reached the world without losing the awkward honesty that made her relatable. Her debut single celebrated introversion instead of glamour, and that authenticity clearly resonated, the 2018 Grammy for Best New Artist confirmed it. In an industry built on polished personas, she keeps offering songs that affirm being ordinary and imperfect. Her voice feels less like a distant idol and more like a friend talking you through a rough night. That sincerity, I think, is her real superpower.

Name (English)

Alessia Cara

Name (Japanese)

アレッシア・カーラ

Reading

あれっしあ・かーら

Born

July 11, 1996 (age 30)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

Origin

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Occupation

singer / songwriter / YouTuber / voice actor / actor

Awards & achievements

• 2018 Grammy Award for Best New Artist
• MTV Europe Music Award for Best World Stage Performance

• Official sitehttps://www.alessiacara.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/alessiasmusic/
• Xhttps://x.com/alessiacara
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessia%20Cara
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20090091

Tags

• Ontario
• singer
• songwriter
• YouTuber

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.