Alessia Caracciolo, known as Alessia Cara, was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, a city just outside Toronto, where she attended Cardinal Ambrozic Catholic Secondary School. She is of Italian descent from Calabria; her father was born in Canada, to Italian parents, and her mother is an Italian immigrant. As a child, she wrote poetry and did theater. At the age of 10 she began playing guitar and taught herself how to play various songs. At the ag ... e of 13 she began her own YouTube channel where she posted covers of songs that she performed.See more [+]
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