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Shawn Mendes Biography

Shawn Mendes

Facts of Shawn Mendes

Date of Birth: 1998 , August-8
Birth Nation: Canada
Height: 6 Feet

Quick Timeline of Shawn Mendes

1998 Born in Toronto, Ontario
2012 Began sharing cover songs in Vine
2014 Released his first EP, The Shawn Mendes EP
2015 Released his debut album, Handwritten
2014 Won Teen Choice Award
2015 Won Shorty Awards
2015 Won Much Music Video Awards

Detail Timeline of Shawn Mendes

August 8 , 1998

Born in Toronto, Ontario

An emerging singing talent, Shawn Mendes was born by the name Shawn Peter Raul Mendes at the end of 1990s Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Karen and Manuel Mendes. He was raised in upper middle class family. He is of white ethnicity.

2012

Began sharing cover songs in Vine

His musical interest induced since his childhood days. He is also talented in playing guitar and piano. He began singing since his early teens. In 2012, he uploaded his cover song in an application Vine and after this popular and fame became acclaimed.

July 28 , 2014

Released his first EP, The Shawn Mendes EP

He released several singles like Life of the Party, Something Big and so on in 2014. He also recorded his debut EP in 2014 and it was released on 28th of July 2014 under the title The Shawn Mendes EP.

April 14 , 2015

Released his debut album, Handwritten

Shawn Mendes is a talented singer and songwriter from Canada. He began recording his debut album in 2014 and his debut album was finally released on 14th of April 2015 under the title Handwritten. Handwritten Revisited was released at the end of 2015. 

2014

Won Teen Choice Award

In 2014, he got nominated in Teen Choice Awards for Choice Viner, Choice Web Star: Male and Choice Web Star: Music. He was honored with this award from his later nomination. He also won this award in 2015. 

2015

Won Shorty Awards

He has also once been nominated in Shorty Awards and that was in 2015. He was also honored with this award that year for Vine Musician. In 2015, he also got his first nomination in Canadian Radio Music Awards. 

2015

Won Much Music Video Awards

In 2015, he was awarded with Much Music Video Awards for Fan Fave Video. He also got nominated in this award for Best Pop Video, Fan Fave Artist or Group and Most Buzzworthy Canadian. In 2016, he was honored with Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. 

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Shawn Mendes started dating Victoria's Secret model, Hailey Baldwin in October 2017. They were first seen kissing and cuddling behind the scenes at the 2017 MTV EMA's after-party in London.

He is now aged 19 years old and his height is six feet. His nationality is Canadian and is of Portuguese and English descent.

Shawn was raised in Pickering, Ontario and there he got enrolled at Pine Ridge Secondary School. His musical interest was induced since his childhood days. He is also talented in playing guitar and piano. He grew up listening to John Mayer, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, and Bruno Mars and they are his musical idol. He began singing in his early teens. In 2012, he uploaded his cover song on Vine and after this, his popularity and fame were acclaimed. His talent was well appreciated by Andrew Gertler brought him to Island Records and they offered him a recording contract.

In May 2014, he officially signed for Island and on June 26, 2014, released his first single Life of the Party, which brought him to spot 24 as the youngest debut in the top 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100.  On April 14, 2015, he released his first album Handwritten, which made it to no 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 106,000 copies in its first week and the album was platinum-certified.

In August 2017, he became the first, under 20 artist, to have 3 numbers, There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back, Stitches, Treat You Better, 1 song on Billboard's Adult Pop Songs Chart.

His net worth is as of 2017-18, is around $12 million.