Alicia Kara M usic artist With acoustic covers of popular songs across many species It started racking YouTube views , although he recorded in 2015 for the first time, Canadian singer - songwriter Alicia Kara presented her four years ago. Born : July 11, 1996 (age 19), Brampton, Ontario, Canada Genre : Pop, R&B, Contemporary R&B Biography : Canadian pop-R&B singer and songwriter Alessia Cara (full last name: Caracciolo) made her recorded debut in 2015, though she started racking up YouTube views with acoustic covers of popular songs across several genres four years earlier. Upon graduating from high school in her native Brampton, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Cara opted to devote a year to music rather than go straight to college. She continued to regularly upload YouTube clips and landed a major-label recording contract with Def Jam. Matched up with Andrew "Pop" Wansel, Warren "Oak" Felder, an...