“Three years before I performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, I visited NBC Studios with my high school drama club. We toured the Tonight Show set. I remember the guide not letting me touch Jimmy’s desk. So I ran to his monologue mark –the little X he stands on when he delivers the monologue– and told myself ‘I’m going to be here one day.’ I shared this story with Jimmy when I first performed on his show. He walked me to the monologue mark and said, ‘Alessia, you’ve made it.’ It proved to me that all of my dreams are valid.”
For once, Alessia Cara’s voice betrays her; it breaks in the anecdote’s retelling. And why not? The unassuming 20-year-old from Brampton, Ontario has captured the hearts and minds of listeners worldwide: four JUNO [Canadian Music Award] nominations in 2016, including a win for Breakthrough Artist of the Year; a tour with Coldplay; a performance with Taylor Swift after which Taylor proclaimed herself an Alessia fan; the cover of Billboard Magazine’s Grammy issue; a 2016 AMA nomination for New Artist of the Year. – http://www.alessiacara.com/#bio
