Shawn Mendes fortune

Short introduction

Canada seems to be lucky enough to export an indispensable consumer good: handsome, musical teenage stars. And after Justin Bieber has somehow retired in this regard, someone else has to come in his footsteps. Shawn Mendes: crush of women, lovers of exceptional cars and self-made man who has managed to become one of the most famous teen idols around the world through the Internet.

Early life

Shawn Peter Raul Mendes was born in Toronto in 1998 and grew up with his younger sister Aaliyah in the manageable suburb of Pickering. His parents are not native Canadians. Father Manuel actually comes from the Portuguese Algarve region, the mother is English. Both love music and, with their different preferences, which range from country to reggae, also influence their son’s taste in music. But he still wants to be an actor. He takes acting classes at Pine Ridge High School, which he attends. At the same time, he spends his free time teaching himself how to play the guitar with the help of Internet videos.

The parents are open-minded about Shawn’s wishes for the future, giving him a free hand. The fact that in the end he actually chooses music and not acting is partly because he can’t remember the lyrics and partly because of a family trip to Portugal. There he spontaneously pulls out his guitar in a market place and smashes a few notes of a hit by Bruno Mars while his parents are busy shopping. And he realizes: this is his world. However, he never completely put the thought of acting on ice.

The fascination of the Internet, which offers so inexhaustible opportunities to show yourself, does not stop at Shawn Mendes. So he starts uploading some songs to Youtube, later on the Vine platform. He doesn’t sing his own songs – which his father always encourages him to do – but covers versions of well-known hits by other stars, such as Justin Bieber or Adele.

To his surprise, he is well received “out there”. The 15-year-old lures almost 4 million fans from his youth room into his previously inconspicuous life. Among these fans is the manager Andrew Gertler of the record label Island, who in 2013 became aware of the boy’s musical and optical potential and signed him on.

Career

Just one year later, the first single “Life of the Party” was released and stormed number 24 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts. Shawn Mendes is thus the youngest performer to get started so high with a debut single. Of course, the song will also be a hit in his native Canada, New Zealand, Australia and some European countries.

This is followed by the first album “Handwritten”, which sold 160,000 copies after just one week and at the same time conquered number 1 on the American Billboard 200 charts. Shawn Mendes is the second Canadian after Justin Bieber to hit the charts so high before the age of 18 with a debut album. In fact, a certain similarity of the “Bieber’s” style of music cannot be denied. Shawn’s mix of jagged pop and light ballads arrives. “Handwritten” is also a great success in Great Britain, Sweden and Portugal.

From 2015 Mendes will give concerts in Europe and North America for the first time. Another extensive tour follows shortly thereafter. This time, besides the USA and Europe, Asia and Australia are also on the program. A year later, Shawn’s second album “Illuminate” is released. In addition, he graduated from high school. The following tour for the album “Illuminate” takes Mendes again through North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

In 2018 his latest album will be released, which is simply called “Shawn Mendes”. The album is widely praised for its evolved musical style. Shawn Mendes has matured. It is the third album to lead the US Billboard 200 charts, but it is also conquering the hit parades of numerous other countries, which is why Shawn is going on an extensive tour again this year, which this time will also take him to South America. The 38 scheduled shows are sold out within minutes.

In 2019, he released further singles, including the duet “Señorita” with the US Cuban Camila Cabello – a song that became a summer hit in Germany. In the same year, the business magazine Forbes called the 21-year-old one of the richest and youngest celebrities in the world.

But Shawn does not only earn his income from musical performances and record contracts. He has also launched his own perfume and earns a not inconsiderable “pocket money” as a model for the well-known brands Calvin Klein and Emporio Armani. Furthermore, the fast food chain Tim Hortons advertises on his paper cups with his likeness.

Career highlights

In the few years of his fast career, Shawn Mendes has won many important awards, including three People’s Choice Awards, eight Juno Awards, four BMI Pop Awards, three American Music Awards and eleven MTV European Music Awards. He was even nominated twice for the Grammy. As a special highlight, Shawn Mendes mentioned his appearance as a support act for the American singer Taylor Swift at the beginning of his career. It was the first time for him to play in front of such a large audience – 60,000 people. In the meantime, of course, this has become a habit for him. In 2018 he was invited as a musical guest to an event on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II’s 92nd birthday.

Famous quotes

The likeable Shawn Mendes, who is exceptionally reflective for his age, does not want to be a quickly fading pop star: “I want to create hymns for people. I want to create hymns for great moments in their lives. I don’t want my music to be heard for a few months and then disappear forever. ” Shawn Mendes wants his songs to change the world, says it’s not just about the music itself, but also about “the things you do while you make music.”

Amazing facts

Shawn Mendes has a big heart for people in need. Like no other, he is committed to a good cause, wants to shake the world up with campaigns on the topic of AIDS, breast cancer, sick children, the environment, and women all over the world who have no access to educational institutions. In this way, he promoted the construction of a school in Ghana and even founded his own aid organization in 2019. For three years, Shawn, who himself suffered from anxiety for a while, collaborated with the so-called “DoSomething” project, in which participants are encouraged to leave small pieces of paper with positive messages in all possible places. This action as well as his hit “In my blood” is supposed to bring mental problems like depression into the focus of the public. Hats off so much youthful engagement.