Shawn Mendes Research Paper

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Shawn Peter Raul Mendes was born August 8th, 1998. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Shawn has was born to Karen (Rayment) and Manuel Mendes. Manuel is a business man, and Karen is a real estate agent. Manuel is Portuguese and his mother is English. He has one younger sibling Aaliyah Mendes. Shawn Mendes is 18 years old. He started doing covers to songs in 2013 on Youtube. Near that time he started posting covers on the app, Vine. Within months millions of people were in love. Shawn’s first cover was to Adele, Hometown Glory, at the age 13. Later that year he joined a group of boys: Nash Grier, Aaron Carpenter, Cameron Dallas, Matthew Espinosa, Taylor Caniff, Carter Reynolds, Sam Wilkinson, Dillian Rupp, Brent Rivera, Hayes Grier, …show more content…

Many of Shawn Mendes’s covers are to Ed Sheeran’s song. On August 18th, 2013 Shawn tweeted, “Ed Sheeran man, I really look up to that guy” Shawn has also stated many times how he would love to me Ed. Which he did in 2015. No doubt, Shawn wants to be just like Ed Sheeran. Shawn also supports many charities such as; Musicians on Call, Pencils of Promise, Ryan Seacrest Foundation, The Salvation Army, Boston Children’s Hospital, DoSomething.org, GRAMMY Foundation. In 2015 Shawn had to raise $25,000 for Pencils of Promise, to build a school in Ghana. He had 98% of the money after just a single social media post. Within seven days all the money and more had been raised. Some other facts about Shawn is, he is the oldest of two. His younger sister, Aaliyah, is thirteen years old. Aaliyah is known for her fame on Musical.ly, the lip-syncing app. Just a few months ago Shawn serenated a family friend at his wedding with a song he had written, especially for them. Shawn had braces. He has his ears pierced, which he does not wear anymore. Also, Shawn is self-taught in guitar, he started at the age of 13. Since Shawn’s fame started at such a young age he completed some of his Junior Year online. He has one tattoo on his forearm. The tattoo is a shadow outcast of his hometown, Toronto, in the shape of a

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