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Alessia Cara

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 11, 1996

Talent is talent, but fashion is separate, and it shouldn't be used to judge me as a singer.

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You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

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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.

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I had a fairly regular childhood. I was a pretty boring kid. I didn't do much. I was always thinking, but I didn't really say a lot.

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I actually didn't grow up watching 'Degrassi,' but I saw the commercials and knew the characters. I didn't realize that Drake was the guy from 'Degrassi.' I had to piece it together and go, 'Oh! He's Aubrey Graham.'

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It's amazing: it's so cool being from Brampton, Ontario, and being able to travel the world and being embraced by so many countries.

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I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

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Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.

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Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

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I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.

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When I write, I like squeezing as many words as possible into each bar - I've listened to the Fugees and Lauryn Hill for as long as I can remember, so probably a big chunk of it subconsciously comes from that.

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When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.

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It's hard to consider myself one when a lot of my fans and people who are calling me a role model are people my age and sometimes older than me. I feel like they're at the same walk of life that I'm in right now, and they can probably teach me things about life, too.

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