One song has totally changed Brampton singer/songwriter Alessia Cara’s life.

The single Here came about this time last year and it’s been a meteoric rise for the young woman ever since. Yesterday, she arrived at the Juno Awards with four nominations and left with the Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award.

“I’m just a regular girl who lived the most normal life and ever since I released one song I haven’t lived the same day twice,” gushed Cara, 19, after she took the stage to receive her award.

Cara, who put her hand over her heart and briefly hopped up and down with excitement after being announced as the winner, also had a chance to perform live at the show with renditions of both Here and Wild Things.

Meanwhile, Here has proved to be a massive hit for the singer. It reached number one on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and rocketed up The Hot 100 to reach as high as number five.

As well, Cara was one of the top listened to artists on the Google Play Music 2016 Juno Award Nominees playlist.

While she was also nominated for three other Juno Awards – Juno Fan Choice Award, Single of the Year and R&B/Soul Recording of the Year for the album Four Pink Walls – she had to settle for just one award. However, there was no shame in losing to superstars Justin Bieber (Fan Choice) and The Weeknd song Can’t Feel My Face (Single of the Year) and his album Beauty Behind the Madness (R&B/Soul Recording of the Year).

Powerful duo Death From Above 1979, which includes Erin Mills native Sebastien Grainger (who no longer lives here) along with Jesse F. Keeler, took home Rock Album of the Year for The Physical World. The award-winning album was the band’s first release in a decade and its first since 2004’s You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine.

The band beat out releases from The Sheepdogs, Nickelback, Bryan Adams and Matthew Good, with the latter good-naturedly tweeting his congratulations to the duo, calling The Physical World an “awesome album” and “totally the right choice.”

The band did tweet about the win, saying “thanks for the Juno.”