As we told you about Michael Bublé, it is known that Toronto is a very musical city, giving birth to many internationally renowned artists. Today we want to tell you the story of Shawn Mendes, alias of Shawn Peter Raul Mendes, a very young pop star, among the most loved in the world.
The beginnings of Shawn Mendes
Shawn Mendes was born on August 8, 1998. His father Manuel Mendes is a Portuguese businessman from Algarve, and his mother Karen Rayment, a British estate agent. As it happens for many personalities of modern days, Shawn stands out thanks to the web. In 2012, he begins to publish some covers on YouTube, and then magnificent interpretations on Vine, a software that allowed users to create videos, called precisely vines, and share them on numerous social network services. In a few months he becomes the third most popular musician of the aforementioned social network.
In 2014, therefore, it is already very famous on the web. The American manager Andrew Gertler bet on him and convinced him to sign a contract with the label Island Records. His first song Life of the Party, recorded when he was fifteen-years-old, turns him into the youngest artist to finish in the top 25 of the Billboard Hot 100. After some collaborations with Magcon and The Vamps, Shawn reaches worldwide success with Stitches, a song that reaches the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100 and the first position in the Pop Songs ranking. From this moment, everything changes.
Success and his relationship with Camila Cabello
In fact, from 2015 Shawn Mendes begins to collaborate with the most popular young pop stars of the moment. The first is Taylor Swift, with whom he participates in the tour in the North American stages. During the same year, he released I Know What You Did Last Summer, a song interpreted with Camila Cabello, his current girlfriend. Treat You Better, the first extract from the 2016 Illuminate album, is the definitive consecration of the Torontian singer. In less than a year, the video of the song reaches one billion views on YouTube. At the MTV Europe Music Awards 2016 he receives six nominations, winning the prizes for best male artist and best world artist
With There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back of 2017 he earned the double platinum in Australia and Italy and became one of the best-seller on the iTunes portal of various countries around the globe, approaching the popularity levels of his idols. We are talking about John Mayer, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars.
Moreover, his career also gives him other stimulating prospects. In 2018, in fact, he was chosen as ambassador of the Emporio Armani watch line for the Fall / Winter 2018-2019 campaign.
The song Señorita, interpreted together with his current companion, in short, is only the last of an already long series of successes. Which, we imagine, will continue for much longer.
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