Shawn Mendes

Shawn Mendes is a Canadian songwriter and singer, born on 8 August 1998 in Toronto, Canada. Shawn Mendes birth name is Shawn Peter Raul Mendes. Shawn’s father, Manuel Mendes is Portuguese and his mother is English. He has a younger sister, Aaliyah. Shawn started his career in the year 2013 by posting videos of song covers on a mobile application - Vine and has been active till date. He got a chance to sing with a record label and he caught the attention of famous artists which led him to get many chances for his career. Shawn stated that John Mayer, Bruno Mars Bruno Mars is the stage name of Peter Gene Hernand >> Read More... , Ed Sheeran In West Yorkshire, there lies a market town in Cal >> Read More... and Justin Timberlake “Tearin’ up My Heart” remembering one of their big >> Read More... were his music influences. In instruments, Shawn plays the guitar, keyboard and piano. Shawn’s music falls under the genre category - acoustic and pop.

Shawn holds two discographies – Handwritten, released in 2015 and Illuminate, released in the year 2016. The sales of the copies of his album – Handwritten increased every day for the first week and touched nearly 106,000 copies. His album Illuminate is one of the biggest hits among top 100. Shawn released his album live at Madison Garden in the year 2016. Shawn received several awards and nominated for many awards for his musical works like two MTV Europe Music awards and three music video trophies. In 2015, he received the Breakout Award in Toronto at SOCAN awards.

Shawn was listed as the amongst the 25 most influential Teens in 2014 and 2015. In 2016, He signed with the modeling agency - Wilhelmina Models. Mendes planned his second tour in March 2016 to Europe and North America. In 2014, Shawn became a part of a campaign along with DoSomething.Org - ‘Notes from Shawn’. The campaign was re-launched in 2015. He also worked for Pencils of Promise and raised their promotions up to $25,000 in Ghana to build a school.