Shawn Peter Raul Mendes (born August 8, 1998) is a Canadian
singer-songwriter. He attracted a following in 2013, when he began posting song
covers on the popular video sharing application vine.
He first started posting cover songs on
the popular social video app Vine in 2013 and gained millions of views and
followers in a few months, becoming well known for his six-second snippets of
renditions of many popular songs. By August 2014,
he was the third most-followed musician on Vine. Artist manager
Andrew Gertler discovered Mendes online in January 2014, bringing him to Island Records where
he eventually signed and released his first single "Life of the Party" in
June 2014.He is the
youngest 15-year-old artist to debut in the top 25 with a debut song on the Billboard Hot 100 making it to number 24 for the week ending July 12, 2014.
On April 14, 2015, Mendes released his full-length
album Handwritten, which
debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart with 119,000 equivalent album units, selling 106,000 copies
in its first week. However, it suffered a 89%
traditional sales decrease in its second week. The third single from the
album, "Stitches", peaked at number four on the
U.S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming
his first top 10 single in the US,[ and reached the top position
on the Mainstream Top 40 chart. The song later reached number
one in the UK. Mendes recorded a song called
"Believe" for Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants.[ He also opened for Taylor Swiftduring 1989 World
Tour dates for North America.
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