Music Beats Cancer: Alessia Cara
Alessia Caracciolo, better known as Alessia Cara, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. She was born in Ontario to Italian-Canadian parents. As a little girl, she loved writing poetry and doing theatre. She was only 10 when she started playing guitar and taught herself how to play various songs. When she was 13, she […]
Music Beats Cancer: Taboo
Jaime Luis Gomez, professionally known as Taboo, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and DJ, best known as a member of the popular hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas. He was born in July of 1975 in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, to Mexican parents, but he also has Shoshone Aboriginal heritage from his […]
Music Beats Cancer: Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was born in 1999 in Pennsylvania and was raised alongside her three older sisters. Sabrina began posting videos on YouTube of her singing from the age of ten. She was so passionate about music that her father built a purple recording studio in a […]
Music Beats Cancer: Shawn Mendes
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Born in the city of Pickering, Ontario, he gained international fame after getting his start on YouTube and now-defunct app Vine. Not only was he discovered by posting his cover videos on the Internet, but he also taught himself to play guitar the same way, […]
Music Beats Cancer: Harry Hudson
Harry Hudson is an American recording artist, songwriter, and musician of folk-rock and pop music. He was born in 1993 in Englewood, New Jersey and moved to the west coast at a young age. Early on, he was interested in rap music, joining a group with friends and recording music with a laptop in a […]
Music Beats Cancer: Ben Howard
Benjamin John “Ben” Howard is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and composer. Born in London, he moved to Totnes, Devon, in his teens. Howard’s musically-inclined parents exposed him to their favorite musicians at a young age, such as Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, and Simon & Garfunkel, sparking in him the love for music. By the age […]
Music Beats Cancer: Stromae
Paul Van Haver, better known by his stage name Stromae (an anagram of “maestro”), is a multi-talented Belgian singer, musician, rapper, and songwriter. He was born in 1985 in Brussels to a Rwandan father and a Belgian mother. Unfortunately, he and his siblings were raised only by their mother, as his father, a successful architect, […]
Music Beats Cancer: Julia Michaels
Julia Carin Cavazos, known professionally as Julia Michaels, is a notable American singer and songwriter, from Davenport, Iowa. She has been active in music since she was 18 years old, penning tracks for Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears, and Justin Bieber, among many others. Her singing career started in January 2017, when she released […]
Music Beats Cancer: Jules Iolyn
One of the winners of our Challenge, Jules Iolyn, is a tremendously talented artist who sees music as her one and true calling. In this interview, you’ll learn more about her, her music, and what moves and drives her career. She will also tell us how cancer has played a huge, albeit a terrible role […]
Music Beats Cancer: Kesha
Kesha Rose Sebert is a famous American singer, rapper, and songwriter. Her fans, and basically everyone else who has heard of her, know her as Ke$ha. Her music is a mix of pop, electropop, as well as some dance- and synth-pop, and hip hop. Kesha started her career when she was only 18 years old, […]