Shawn Mendes’ parents, Canadian singer and songwriter Shawn Peter Raul Mendes, was born on August 8, 1998, in Pickering, Ontario, Canada.

Mendes was born to an English mother, Karen Rayment, and a Portuguese father, Manuel Mendes. He has the same parents as his sister Aaliyah Mendes.

His family was religious and he grew up playing football for Pickering FC. Mendes played ice hockey and football, joined the high school glee club, took theater classes, and graduated from Pine Ridge High School in June 2016, where he also performed in stage shows. Glee (he played Prince Charming for a while). . He also appeared in a Disney Channel casting call in Toronto.

Career of Shawn Mendes

When he uploaded cover songs to the video-sharing site Vine in 2013, Mendes began to build a following. The following year, he attracted the attention of Island Records A&R Ziggy Chareton and talent manager Andrew Gertler, leading to a contract with the label.

Mendes’ self-titled debut EP was released in 2014, and his debut studio album Handwriting was released in 2015. Mendes is one of five musicians whose debut album reached No. 1 before the age of 18, thanks to “Handwriting “, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200.

The song “Stitches” reached number one in the United Kingdom and a top 10 single in the United States and Canada. The singles “Treat You Better” and “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” from Mendes’ second album, Illuminate (2016), reached number one in the United States and other countries, respectively.

The first song “In My Blood” served as a promotional platform for the album. Mendes became the third youngest artist to have three number-one albums when the album debuted at number one in the United States.

Her 2019 songs “If I Can’t Have You” and “Seorita”, the latter of which reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, were both hits.

With his fourth, Wonder (2020), he became the youngest male artist to debut atop the Billboard 200 with four studio albums.

Mendes has received several awards, including 13 SOCAN Awards, 10 MTV Europe Music Awards, 8 Juno Awards, 8 iHeartRadio MMVAs, 2 American Music Awards, three Grammy Award nominations, and 1 Brit Award nomination.

In 2018, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most important people in the world on its annual list.

Who are Shawn Mendes’ parents?

Mendes was born to an English mother, Karen Rayment, and a Portuguese father, Manuel Mendes. He has the same parents as his sister Aaliyah Mendes. His father Manuel worked as a businessman in the Algarve, selling bar and restaurant supplies in Toronto and his mother Karen is a real estate agent.