“I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It just proves that everybody likes what I'm doing. But at the same time, I feel like it's important to just chill and experience things and really make the songs true to me.”

Canadian singer and songwriter

Alessia Cara, born Alessia Caracciolo, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She became known after posting song covers on YouTube as a teenager, then signed to EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings in 2014. Her debut single, "Here", arrived the next year. It reached number 19 on the Canadian Hot 100 and became a sleeper hit in the United States, where it peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.