If you thought there were only talented females from Barbados (Rihanna, Shontelle, Livvi Franc & Vita Chambers), you thought wrong! Let me introduce you to Hal Linton, he is an SRP/Universal Motown recording artist & songwriter, producer, multiple BMA award winner,  and one of the best voted BET Rising Icon’s. His talents are truly promising and will leave an indelible mark on music. GET FAMILIAR!

That said, you should be super excited like I am, to hear the song they both recorded in studio recently titled ‘Scream’. It was ‘magic’ and close sources say it’s a HIT!

Read more about Hal Linton, check out his recent Artist Spotlight over at Neonlimelight.

Mr Hudson is a British band based in London, best known for his hit single ‘Supernova’ feat. Kanye West. There are rumors flying around that they recorded a song titled “Do It” in London recently. We’ll just have to wait and see then huh? Check out the photos below.

In an exclusive interview Neonlimelight recently had with London-based singer/songwriter Mr. Hudson, he revealed he wouldn’t mind working with Shontelle! Read an extract below:

When asked about working with another Barbados-native, “T-Shirt” singer Shontelle, Hudson cited time constraints as the reason behind them not being able to pair up. “It’s kind of just a rumor, but like Lil Wayne wants to f-ck every girl in the world, I want to work with every girl in the world.”

Source: Neonlimelight (Thanks TJ!)

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Below are extracts from a recent interview Shontelle did with EveryUrbanThing.

EUT: How has life changed since signing to SRC Records/Universal Motown?

Oh my gosh, life has changed a lot because I’ve had to move away from home. I live in New York now so I’m away from friends and family a lot, which can be very lonely. Also, it’s weird to be somewhere where people recognise you and want to take their photo with you, it’s all very different but also very exciting. Also, I have a lot less time to relax, not much down time, very busy, every day.

EUT: How was supporting Beyonce on tour?

Wow, the experience of a life time, I was very nervous going on tour knowing that Beyonce fans do not tolerate any mediocrity when you see her live it’s like the closest thing of perfection so there was a lot of pressure. When they get something less than that they’re like who’s this wannabe Beyonce girl, we don’t want her.

But it was the complete opposite her fans were completely supportive of me, Beyonce’s people said they’d never had someone fill this many seats so early, which meant people were there to see me which was a great feeling.

EUT: Who would you like to work with?

The queen! Call your girl up, you know how to reach me! I really love Alicia keys, thats one of my dreams. I had dreams of working with Michael Jackson but now that’s never going to happen what a tragedy, it saddens me.

Getting to work with Akon again would be really cool, or to have a Rihanna/Shontelle track 2 bastion girls. There are some cool UK acts like Tinchy Stryder and Alexandra Burke, who you might see me collaborate with as we’re all friends.

EUT: What has been your best moment of 2009 so far?

I would have to say, other than the success of T-shirt and Stuck with Each other singles, the highlight definitely was the Beyonce tour, and the best moment on the tour was having Beyonce herself ask to see me.

I thought I was in trouble! But she called me in and she said that I really want to say to you that I think you’re incredible and it’s a pleasure to have you on tour, I keep seeing your videos on TV and I think they’re amazing and you’re so talent, so keep your head on and you’ll get there. You’re doing a great job diva, it’s been pleasure having you on the tour. She’s living legend already.

Source: EveryUrbanThing | Read the full interview here

It’s been nearly a year since American Idol runner up David Archuleta and Shontelle met back at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC last year. Since then David was booked heavy touring and making appearances prior to his self-titled debut album, and Shontelle was busy doing the same and touring with the Diva herself… Beyonce.

Ever since Twitter came along, celebrities joined in the fun to, first was Shontelle and then David Archuleta joined aswell. Not long after the two friends re-united online, following each other and tweeting back and forth… both gaining lots of attention by the Shonleta fans!

David’s been showing his love to Shontelle alot recently to, first was mentioning her to Demi during her live ustream webcast last week, then later on blogging about her while he was on tour with Demi.

It’s interesting to see how Archie fans are now Shontelle fans, and Shontelle fans are now Archie fans too! Everyone sharing the love. We hope a collaboration can happen between these two soon, and I’m sure many Shonleta fans look forward to it!

Below are quotes taken from just a few of the many Archie blogs online:

“… as for a possible duet w/ Shontelle, it would allow both of them to gain new fans and an opportunity for david to experiment with Caribbean-fused pop.”

“I don’t know, this Bubbly performance vid has got Shontelle in spaz mode. She’s been listening to it all day. haha!”

“Gotta love Shontelle & David….I will go buy both of their album’s now!”

“Kudos to Shontelle for recognizing D and being such a loyal friend to him. I would love to see a collaboration between them!”

“Shontelle hearts David and the snarkies hearts shontelle!”

Sources: DavidFanblast , FansofDavid , SoulDavid , MJBlog , SnarkyArchie

Watch videos of Shontelle & David Archuleta after the jump | (Read more…)

Below is an extract taken from a Def Jam release regarding Rihanna’s new album:

Numerous artists are collaborating on this album, which will be very certainly an enormous success and will make the return of Rihanna an inevitable come-back worldwide.

Among the army of co-workers, we shall quote for example the famous leader of the group One Republic, Ryan Tedder, who composed two songs for Rihanna, among one completely played by a piano, Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, Soulja Boy, Shontelle, Jay-Z, Pharell Williams, and many others…

(Let’s all cross our fingers and hope it happens!)

Source: RihannaDaily

Shontelle dedicated a special ustream live chat today with her fans to celebrate the music, life and times of her hero and idol, Michael Joseph Jackson. The entire show was filled with MJ’s best hits. All of this was held at The Loft (SRP Records) while going in and out of her recording sessions in studio. Special guest Hal Linton passed through with a guitar in hand to sing “Bubbles” with Shontelle… a hit song in the making lol.

Watch the performance and part of the live chat below:

Big shout out to Christie, Julie, Hal Linton and Brandon!!

Alliance star Serani’s bonafide hit “No Games” has landed at the #1 spot on America’s reggae iTunes Chart for the first time, knocking Bob Marley’s timeless classic “Three Little Birds” off the top spot. Having been selling thousands of downloads and ringtones for months, No Games has been flirting with the #1 spot for sometime, but now replaces Bob Marley’s anthem, that sells an average of 5,500 a week in downloads on iTunes.

“No Games is actually still gaining in spins across the country,” said Serani’s manager. “This record just won’t go away. Its still getting added to playlists in many states across the country every week so it continues to spread.”

Serani recently recorded a remix for No Games with songstress Shontelle, while on tour in the UK. Shontelle scored big in the UK with her recent hit “T-Shirt” and being label mates Universal Music made the match and hooked up the two artists. Universal/Island Records will release the No Games + remix package digitally on July 6th.

“Shontelle was great to work with,” said Serani. “She’s a very talented songwriter and she has a great personality so the chemistry was good in the studio. The remix is hot.”

Shontelle has revealed she’s having a blast supporting Beyonce on the UK leg of her tour, saying the excitement “never dies”. The 23-year-old also said she’s a huge fan of Bootylicious Beyonce, who plays her final gig at London’s O2 Arena tonight (Tuesday).

She said: “I am touring with the queen, the diva herself, Beyonce, I am so excited, every night it’s just the same level of excitement as before, it just never dies – she is beautiful and very lovely, she’s so supportive and she’s such a sweetheart.”

Asked if she would like to collaborate with the Crazy In Love singer, Shontelle said: “I hope so… the ladies have got to hold it down together, you never know. I would love that though.”

Rumours have been circulating about a possible collaboration with Rihanna, and the Barbados-born T-Shirt singer teased: “I’ll keep that a little secret for now, we’ll see, we’ll see – I’ll keep you all wondering.”

With her next single Battle Cry out soon, Shontelle revealed some details about her video. “We already shot the video in LA so that’s coming really soon,” she said. “The video is very uplifting, when you watch it you’ll feel very inspired – it’s kind of glossy, very simple, not overdone but very inspirational.”

Source: MusicNews (Virgin Media)

Today’s Music Flashback: Most of you should already know this reggae Unfaithful remix by Rihanna & Shontelle. It’s a nice track. This is just one of the many other collaborations & remixes Shontelle has done before.

Visit our Collaborations section to see who else Shontelle has collaborated with.

ShontelleOnline exclusive pictures of Shontelle in Studio with Serani working on a remix of his single “No Games”. They recorded the remix in a popular recording studio in West London on May 11, 2009. Stay tuned for the track coming soon!

In 2006 a guy named Philip Arthur was asked to film, edit and produce a behind the scenes DVD for recording studio Slam City in Barbados. In this chapter Scott, Shontelle and Nathalee make a short notice visit to studio with a track in mind to make audiences move.

(It definitely had me moving!)

If you attended this concert LIVE and have pictures or videos from that night, please feel free to send them in to us! at sholayonline@gmail.com

As posted before, a Jamaican R&B/Reggae band named ‘J-Status’ originally had a single named ‘Pieces’ which was on their Myspace for a couple months now, in January 2009 a new ‘revamped’ version surfaced the internet and featured Shontelle on the track adding to it an even more tropical reggae vibe. We now bring to you the “final” version of the track – with added Shontelle vocals in the beginning and throughout the song. Check out the song below:

Some of you may already be familiar with J-Status – Back in 2006, Shontelle and Sheldon Benjamin, the composers of Alison Hind’s “Roll It Gal” re-wrote and re-produced the song for the band J-Status and named it “Roll it” – This same J-Status version was also performed with Rihanna and Shontelle herself in their first music video, and the song never died since! Shontelle’s debut album ‘Shontelligence’ also has her own version of ‘Roll It’

Download this song (click here) & also check out J-Status Myspace!