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Alessia Cara Facts: 17 Things You lot Need To Know About The Grammy'due south 'Best New Artist'

Since releasing her debut single 'Hither,' Canadian singer-songwriter Alessia Cara has began to blow upwardly worldwide, with artists including Drake and Taylor Swift as fans. Hither'south everything you demand to know nearly Alessia before the release of her debut album 'Know It All.'

1. Where is Alessia Cara from? Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

Alessia grew upwardly on the outskirts of Toronto, the same metropolis musical talents like Drake and The Weeknd hail from.
2. Alessia is only 21-years-old.

Her birthday is on July 11th, 1996. She flew to New York and signed a management deal when she was just 16-years-sometime.
3. Her real name is Alessia Caracciolo.

She is Canadian born with Italian parents.
4. Alessia grew her fanbase by posting covers of songs on Youtube

She began her YouTube channel when she was but thirteen-years-old. On it she covers songs by Chris Forehead, Amy Winehouse, Beyonce and many more.
five. Alessia has a tattoo of a paper sail-boat on her wrist.

"They seem so frail, merely when you put them on water they bladder. It's a reminder that even though I'm small and seem weak, I'm not," she told Billboard.
half dozen. Alessia Cara is incredible at celebrity impersonations.

Spotter what happened when we asked her to impersonate Adele.
7. Alessia has merely always attended ane concert in her life – a Justin Bieber concert!

And she only went to the Bieber concert because her friend had a spare ticket! Picture: Getty
8. 'Here' is built around an Isaac Hayes sample.

Her debut song "Here" samples Isaac Hayes's "Ike's Rap II".
9. Her hit single 'Here' is based on a truthful story.

Alessia wrote the vocal the day after attending a political party when she was 16-years-former. In information technology she sings almost a party she's at, but wishes she wasn't. "Information technology's a party song, but really it'southward the complete opposite of a party song. It's admittedly me; it shouts out the person in the corner of the party, looking around uncomfortably. I feel like this song narrates what the wallflower is thinking." Picture: Getty
10. Drake follows Alessia Cara on Twitter.

"I'yard going to take that as him wanting to do an album together," she joked to Billboard. PIcture: Instagram
11. She covered Drizzy's 'Hold On We're Going Home' and it was amazing.

Hit the link to sentinel the total affair.
12. Her debut album 'Know It All' is will be released in the UK on 11th March.

On the anthology's proper name, Alessia said; "I decided to call the album "Know-It-All" because each song is so opinionated and touches upon a potent feeling. While listening to the album, the listener might be under the impression that I have things figured out and that I know information technology all, only the reality is that I have no idea. Information technology'south a sarcastic championship taken from the song "17" on my anthology. The line says: 'I'one thousand a know-it-all, i don't know plenty Picture: Getty
thirteen. Alessia didn't e'er want to be a singer.

"When I was really immature I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts," she told the BBC.
14. ninety% of Alessia's family are hairdressers.

Alessia did not inherit her musical talent. ninety% of her family unit work as hairdressers and the other 10%, she says, work in construction. Picture: Getty
15. Alessia'southward offset ever YouTube cover was of Jessie J's 'Toll Tag'.

Motion-picture show: Instagram
sixteen. Alessia keeps a notation of all the good things that happen to her.

She one time told Vevo that she "writes down all the skilful things that happen to her and puts them in a jar. At the end of the twelvemonth, she reads them to reflect on all of the good things that happened." What a great idea! Picture: Getty
17. Alessia sites Drake, Ed Sheeran and Amy Winehouse as her musical inspirations.

"I'g obsessed with Ed Sheeran and Drake" she told Capital XTRA in an exclusive interview. Picture: Getty