Cara Paige is a 26-year-old singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, whose music feels like a conversation with your closest friend: raw, reflective, and rooted in real life. Entirely self-taught, Cara picked up a guitar at 14 and wrote her first song, Red Flags, the same year. What began as a personal outlet quickly became her purpose: telling stories that connect, comfort, and resonate.
That voice comes from somewhere. Cara is a Jewish woman — the daughter of a South African immigrant, from a family that survived the Holocaust and left Poland behind. Anne Frank is her 11th cousin, once removed. Her mother crossed an ocean and planted roots in Atlanta, and Cara grew up carrying those stories: everything her family endured and overcame, and the God she believes guided them to safety and a new life. Music became her way through it all — “a land line for my emotions” — a way to understand her own story and to tell her ancestors’, too.
Her 2024 debut album, 23, marked a breakthrough: the lead single debuted at #13 on the iTunes Pop Charts and #58 on the iTunes All-Genre Charts, introducing Cara as a fresh voice in indie pop/rock. The record weaves themes of growing up, nostalgia, and resilience—and earned her Musician of the Year (Silver) at the 7th Annual ISSA Awards, plus finalist nods for Female Rising Star and Female Album of the Year.
Cara’s songwriting has earned national recognition. Her holiday single Joy In The Season won Best Pop Christmas Song at the 3rd Annual Holiday Music & Film Awards and received Josie Music Awards nominations for Songwriter Achievement and Holiday Song of the Year. In 2025, she added four more Josie Songwriter Achievement nominations—for Here’s to the Man in Red, We All Bleed Crimson Red, Paint Me in Your Colors, and Rock This Holiday—and a nomination for Vocalist of the Year (Pop/Rock). She later took home the Songwriter Achievement Award for Here’s to the Man in Red at the 11th Annual Josie Music Awards—a track co-written with Justine Blazer and Corey Lee Barker.
Now deep in her sophomore era, Cara’s album singles are making major waves: We All Bleed Crimson Red charted #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter Chart and #28 on the iTunes All-Genres Chart, and Snake Hunting peaked at #1 on the iTunes Americana Chart and #10 on the iTunes Country Chart, joining If God Had a Number ahead of the album. Her recent releases also include Shake That Sugar, a country-pop track written with Justine Blazer and paired with an official music video and original line dance.
Live, Cara brings warmth and honesty to every performance. She’s taken the stage at Atlanta venues like Park Bench Battery for her album release show and Eddie’s Attic for the famed open mic night.
Cara has also released her first holiday EP, Rock This Holiday, and on August 14, 2026 releases her sophomore album, Light. Hope. Faith. — a roots gospel record, nearly unheard of for a Jewish artist, and that is exactly the point: ten songs of resilience and hope drawn from everything her family has carried and overcome. It features collaborations with Justine Blazer, Corey Lee Barker, Nona Lisa Brown, Steve O’Brien, and Danica Hart. She enters this awards season as a finalist in seven categories at the 8th Annual ISSA Awards and five at the 12th Annual Josie Music Awards. Behind the scenes, Cara is active in the Recording Academy’s GrammyU Atlanta Chapter and holds a Music Business Certificate from the University of Georgia’s Music Business Program.
For Cara, music is more than a career, it’s a way of making sense of the world and sharing that clarity with others. And if you’ve ever found yourself in her lyrics, you know: she’s telling your story, too.
