Shawn Mendes Biography

• Born on August 8, 1998, Shawn released his first self-titled debut EP in the year 2014.
• Mendes introduced his first debut album “Handwritten” in the year 2015 and second debut album “Illuminate” in 2016.
• His song “Stitches” reached on the top position in the United Kingdom and on the 10th position in Canada as well as the United States.
• Recently in the year 2019, Shawn released the hit singles ‘If I Can’t Have You’ and ‘Senorita’, making him stand on 1st on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Family & Personal details

• Shawn is born in the city of Pickering, Ontario and his father Manuel Mendes is a businessman who sells bar and restaurant supplies.
• His mother Karen Mendes is a real estate agent. Shawn also has a younger sister named Aaliyah Mendes.
• However, Mendes is brought up in a religious family and his mother is from England and father from Portuguese.
• From July 2019, Shawn is dating a Cuban-American singer named Camila Cabello. 

 Education & qualification

• The famous Canadian singer Shawn has successfully completed his schooling from Pine Ridge Secondary School, Pickering, Canada.
• During his school days, Shawn was quite interested in playing soccer and ice hockey due to which he joined the high school glee club.
• Mendes has successfully graduated in June 2016.

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 Physical Appearance

• Shawn Mendes is a tall and handsome singer with 6’2” height and weighs almost 80kg.
• He has a perfect physique with 38-31-14 measurements.

 Career

• At the age of 14, Shawn learned to play guitar just by watching the tutorial videos on YouTube.
• However, he began to attract the viewers by posting cover from Justin Bieber’s ‘As Long As You Love Me’ on the app Vine and got 10k likes.
• In the year 2014, Shawn turned out to be the third most followed musician on social video app Vine.
• On September 5, 2014, “Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)” got released in which Shawn featured as the fifth single from Vamp’s debut album.
• His full-length album “Handwritten” got released in 2015 and surprisingly debuted at number one on Billboard 200 Chart.
• In 2016, his second studio album released named ‘Treat You Better’ and reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Shawn Mendes is also seen performing live in a concert honoring Queen Elizabeth II 92nd birthday.
• However, recently on July 27, 2019, Mendes released two songs ‘I Can’t Have You’ and ‘Senorita’.

 Interesting facts about Shawn Mendes

• Recently, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello joined the black lives matter protest in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer.
• Mendes has huge fan followings on the social media platform. Currently, he has 56m followers on Instagram, while 25.6m subscribers on YouTube.
• Shawn’s is also awarded Songwriter of the Year in 2018 at Socan Awards.
• Along with her girlfriend Camila Cabello, Shawn has released the new song “Senorita”.
• In August 2019, Shawn came into the partnership with Canadian-based food chain named Tim Hortons.