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Alessia Cara

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 11, 1996

It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.

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I wasn't even popular at school.

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I remember making a 'thank you' video when one of my videos got to 50 views!

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The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

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I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

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The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.

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I want to show people that I am comfortable enough to go on national television and just be myself.

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I just want to keep my normal life for as long as possible.

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Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.

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I was a very strange child.

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I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it. It's something that I kept to myself. I started easing into it, and I started doing talent shows, and YouTube really helped with that, too.

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I think we all have the right to feel 100 percent beautiful and 100 percent confident without pleasing anybody 'cause we're not here for anybody else.

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Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle with every day.

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I always find power in struggles. You end up a lot happier that way.

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I just dress how I wanna dress. Not to say that I don't care about how I dress or that I'm a slob or anything like that... I just don't have to worry about the outside opinions of what people are saying.

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If I'm kind of an outsider, it just happened that way, and people responded to it.

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I grew up in this little city called Brampton. It's pretty suburban - there's not a lot going on. In my neighbourhood, specifically, there weren't a lot of other kids so I would just spend a lot of time inside.

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I see songs in colors; I see days of the week. Each day of the week I relate to a gender, and it's very weird. I can taste words sometimes. It's very strange.

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I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.

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In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone.

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