Following a performance at the iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards, Alessia Cara gave an interview about her opening slot for Coldplay, as well as the SickKids Foundation in Toronto. The “Wild Things” singer only released her first album, Know-It-All, in 2015 so she could count this performance as the first arena or stadium sized one.
Cara has also been touring with Coldplay and opened up for the group on six dates in the U.K. and will serve as opener on the entire U.S. tour supporting their latest album, A Head Full of Dreams. On June 29, she will begin touring with the band again in Berlin and will then begin the U.S. portion of the tour in mid-July (July 16). She will remain with the group until early September (Sept. 3) through the show in San Francisco.
“I’ve been a fan of theirs for the longest time and when you have a tour of that caliber, it’s always really scary, but then to have headliners that are really welcoming and make you feel comfortable it’s always a lot easier,” Cara said to Billboard following the iHeartRadio MMVAs in Toronto this past Sunday night (June 19).
She further said, “They’re just so nice. They’re the sweetest and they’re hospitable and they’re amazing. It’s just perfect. Everything is going really, really well.”
Cara received the award for Best New Canadian Artist at the iHeart Radio MMVAs and recently collaborated with H&M Canada to design a custom charity t-shirt to benefit a foundation in Toronto called “SickKids.” Cara was herself a patient at the hospital when she was younger for a bacterial infection.
On her time in the hospital Cara said, “I had this really bad bacterial infection and I had to have a serious surgery, and my brother had whooping cough and he was in intensive care for a really long time. So that hospital has been really close to us because they’ve really helped us through some tough times.”
In other Cara news, the singer released the music video for her latest single “Wild Things” from Know-It-All, the album that held a top 10 single with “Here.”
