Illuminate Times - MendesBlogger1 🎶 Chapter 1- Who's Shawn Mendes? Shawn Peter Raul Mendes is a Canadian singer and songwriter. He’s 18 years old actually. He was born on 8 th, August 1998 in Toronto, Ontario in Canada . His mother Karen was born in England and is a real estate agent and his father Manuel, is a business man. He has a younger sister, Aaliyah who sings too. He grew up in Pickering and went to Pine Ridge School in Pickering, where he graduated in June 2016. He taught himself guitar by watching YouTube videos. Besides singing he enjoyed playing ice hockey and soccer . He gained his popularity when he began posting song covers in Vine and within a year he was the third more-followed musician in Vine. Andrew Gertler discovered Shawn online in November 2013 and signed him with Island Records in January 2014. He officially signed in June 2014 and released his first single “Life of the Party”. Shawn toure...