Where Is Shawn Mendes Parents From?

Canadian singer and songwriter, Shawn Mendes’ father is from Algarve, Portugal, while his mother is from England.

Mendes was born into a religious family and raised in Pickering, Ontario, to Karen Mendes, a real estate agent, and Manuel Mendes, a businessman, who sells bar and restaurant supplies in Toronto.

Mendes graduated from Pine Ridge Secondary School in June 2016, where he played ice hockey and soccer, joined his high school glee club, and practised his stage presence in acting lessons (leading as Prince Charming at one point). He also auditioned for Disney Channel in Toronto.

Mendes learned to play guitar by watching YouTube tutorial videos at the age of 14 in 2012.

Less than a year later he started posting cover videos on YouTube. Mendes started attracting viewers after he posted a cover from Justin Bieber’s “As Long as You Love Me” on the social video app Vine in 2013 and got 10,000 likes and as many followers the next day.

After that he gained millions of views and followers in a few months, becoming well known for his six-second snippets of renditions of many popular songs. Mendes saw Bieber as a career model at the time.