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Shawn Mendes [1998-0] Canadian
Rank: 101
Musician, Singer-songwriter


Shawn Peter Raul Mendes is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He attracted a following in 2013, when he began posting song covers on the video sharing application Vine. 

Family, Funny, Home, Imagination, Positive



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I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember.
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There are times when I'm super-overwhelmed, and everything feels like it's hitting me in the face at once, but I think what's keeping me calm, and who I am by staying true to myself, is my whole family being so supportive and keeping me grounded. They treat me the exact same way they treated me years and years ago. Family
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There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.
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I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.
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I always think, what type of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home all the time, would I be at the gym 24/7? Would I be as good at guitar? I know I wouldn't be as mature as I am. Home
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I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.
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I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time. Positive
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I've always been really tall and lanky.
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Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.
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Every time I write a song my approach changes.
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I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.
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I like funny girls. Funny
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I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.
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I don't want to just be a teenage star. I want to be known by parents, and I want them to go, 'Oh I love that song; he's really good for his age. My daughter loves him, but I love him, too.'
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People made fun of my skinny legs.
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I work out every day.
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I was super-obsessed with cover videos. When I was, like, 10, I would come home from school and watch them from 4 o'clock until 8 o'clock every night. I was so intrigued that people took these super-popular songs and did them their own way.
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I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
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I think when you have raw emotion in a song, it makes it great.
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I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
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I believe vitamin C can fix everything.
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Manuka honey is magic.
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Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city. Imagination
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I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to do it.
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I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time. I also feel like I'm learning new ways.
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Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.
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I'm not a rapper.
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The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.
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I loved Nashville. I was amazed by the whole place.
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To be honest, I've only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.
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Island Records was the first record label to... acknowledge me. After that, quickly, Republic Records, and then Atlantic Records, Sony Records and Warner Bros. It was all the labels at once. It was absolutely insane, like, knowing that this many record labels were interested in me.
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I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.
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My first Vine I really just posted out of spontaneity.
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If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset.
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I really love listening to Hozier. He's great.
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I'd rather sleep on the bus than in the hotel because I sleep way better on tour buses.
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