Alessia Cara: Young, gifted and bummed out
by from on (#43YJE)
Artfully awkward sincerity defined the Canadian singer and songwriter Alessia Cara on her 2015 debut album, "Know-It-All." In one of its hits, "Here," she sang about feeling antisocial and alienated at a loud party. And in a song that became an anthem, "Scars to Your Beautiful," she decried superficial ideas of beauty, vowing, "To all the girls that's hurting, let me be your mirror." She went on to collaborate with the rapper Logic on the antisuicide song "1-800-273-8255," and sang an uplifting Lin-Manuel Miranda song, "How Far I'll Go," for the Disney movie "Moana." She was named Best New Artist - a few years late - at the 2018 Grammy Awards.