Carly Rae Jepsen

“I think as long as you’re doing what you’re authentically attracted to, that’s going to shine through eventually,” Carly Rae Jepsen said in a 2019 Apple Music interview.

Born in 1985 in the town of Mission, British Columbia, Jepsen has seen that commitment to her true self pay off.

In 2012, the synthetic disco strings and endlessly meme-able hook of her single “Call Me Maybe” turned it—and her—into a global phenomenon, setting her apart from the pop pack with its unbridled joy.