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Alessia Cara

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 11, 1996

I'm unpolished, I guess.

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All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that.

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There's something so beautiful in a woman who loves her body and is confident.

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When you're from an unknown place, I think it's hard for you to believe it's possible. You think you have to go to L.A. or New York to make it, but I don't think that's true. I'm glad to be an example that you can make it from where you are. All you need is talent and hard work.

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It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It's like, 'You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?' It just proves how much people are alike.

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I'm here to make music; I'm not here be a fashion model.

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I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.

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When I was eight, I told my best friend I got a Hilary Duff autograph, but I just signed it myself.

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Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.

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The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?

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My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the Italian culture. I grew up around it. My parents speak Italian, and I speak Italian.

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Maybe I'm not a typical pop star, but I don't think there's a mould for a pop star or singer. You can do whatever you want.

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Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.

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I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

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I don't really think I got the full high school experience, only because when I got to high school for the first year, it was grades 9-10. We didn't have older grades. But besides that, it was normal. It was a regular public school. We didn't have much going on. It wasn't too crazy.

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It's not that I don't care how I look, but I'd rather turn the attention to the music as much as possible.

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I've never been one to crave attention, which I know means that this is probably the worst career to pick. I get anxious even when people come up to me for pictures sometimes. That's the one thing that makes me hesitant about my future. But I love music too much to not do it.

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We all just need to love ourselves and believe in ourselves.

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I was always singing around the house, even when I was two years old.

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I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

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