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    VIDEO: How to Perfect the ‘No-Makeup’ Look with Shontelle

    Saturday, February 11th, 2012

    Vibe Vixen: NYC-based makeup artist Leora Edut has a passion for creating glamorous and elegant looks. This makeup connoisseur began training at MAC Cosmetics and quickly moved on to work with various celebrities including Molly Sims and Rihanna.

    Recently she teamed up with Vibe Vixen to kick off New York City Fashion Week and show us how to achieve the ultimate No-Makeup Makeup look. This flawless technique can take any Vixen from the conference room at the office to her front row seat at any fashion show. Budding pop artist Shontelle joins us as Leora’s model and lets us in on her favorite looks and makeup products!–Jessica Matos

    Sadie Magazine: The Battle Cry of the Shontelle Republic

    Monday, February 6th, 2012

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    Sadie Magazine: Though her music is of the variety likely to be blasting out of the car window on any given girl’s night, Shontelle is not your typical pop princess. This twenty-three-year-old Bajan songstress is not afraid to get her hands dirty (she was an Army cadet after all), or break a sweat achieving her dreams.

    Her second album, No Gravity, which released in 2010, included her most successful single to date, “Impossible,” and only drove her ambitions higher. Shontelle recently discussed her past in Barbados, what the future looks like for her career, and what it was like to go from being Rhianna’s drill sergeant to co-writing “Man Down.” – Read the full interview here.

    Photo Excerpts from Sade Magazine Photoshoot

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    Barbados Nation WE Magazine: Shontelle – The Sound of Music

    Friday, April 8th, 2011

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    Shontelle the Bajan international recording artist took time out of her busy schedule last week, while travelling and promoting the Caterpillar shoe line, to chat with WE Magazine. In this interview she tells of her passions and expectations.

    WE: Are you where you want to be in your music career?

    A: I’m blessed. I have a music career. That’s exactly where I want to be in my life. It’s very exciting to see my growth and progress and I’ll never feel like I’ve done enough. I will always want to climb higher.

    WE: Have your songwriting skills grown?

    A: I feel so. I think it’s as simple as this: experience equals knowledge. With time, like an infant to an adult, I continue to grow. With each step I have taken, I’ve been able to expand my network and this has led to many great opportunities. I have worked with a long list of artists and writers from Diane Warren and Tony Kanal of No Doubt, to Rihanna and Bruno Mars . . . the list continues to grow. It was one of the best experiences of my career to be able to work with Ri on Man Down. Sitting with her on the studio bus trying to channel “RiRi”. It was so easy. She’s so great!

    WE: Any insights into the music business? Is it harder work than you expected?

    A: The best way to understand it is to live it, I guess. I was wrong about a lot of things I believed before coming into this industry. It’s not that it’s harder work than I expected. I always expected it would probably be one of the most challenging feats I would ever face in my life. I expected to have to work at it for much longer than it would take to actually reach any success. I expected the grind. What I never expected was how emotionally and mentally taxing it could be! Through it all I learnt that I am stronger than I knew I was. I have to be.

    WE: You studied law at UWI. Any plans to adapt this knowledge to your music career?

    A: Well, I already have. I mean if you think about it, what you know affects how you make decisions. So in essence, the more you know, the better you can make more informed decisions. The music industry IS a business. It involves investment, spending, revenue, profit, loss, returns, politics, war . . . .It’s very vicious and competitive. A lot of money is invested and can potentially be made . . . and even more is often lost. That means things like security and protection are very important in order for business not to fail. I inherently use and incorporate all my knowledge from school and from my own research in every aspect of my career.

    WE: What are your views on Rihanna – the path her music is taking, her fashion statements, people’s belief that she is not a true cultural ambassador?

    A: I love Rihanna . . . everything about her. She has millions of fans and she talks about Barbados all the time on Twitter. She’s so fierce and fabulous. More people should be as bold and fearless. Go RiRi! Go!

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    Flavor Magazine UK: Noel Phillips interviews Shontelle (March 2011)

    Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

    shontelleFlavor Magazine UK: Waiting in her dressing room while she’s on stage rehearsing for a later performance, I find myself flicking through the TV channels, nervously waiting for her to join me. When eventually introduced to Shontelle, I steel myself for the interview and extend my hand in a formal greeting… but instead, the Bajan beauty pulls me into an enthusiastic embrace! And breathe…

    She’s sold more than a million copies of ‘Impossible’, her biggest single to date, as well as already having enjoyed mainstream success with her chart-topping debut ‘T-Shirt’. You’d think she’d be in her hometown, relaxing on a sunny beach, but the talented R&B singer/songwriter is well on her way to earning international acclaim with latest single ‘Perfect Nightmare’ taken from her second album No Gravity.

    Flavour catches up with Shontelle to talk about her new single, touring with Jason Derülo and how well she really knows Rihanna. Read the transcript or listen to an exclusive recording below.

    The last time we spoke was just before the release of your debut single ‘T-Shirt’. You’ve come a long way since then, so what have been some of your best moments?
    It’s been really exciting to know that ‘T-Shirt’ did so well. Since then I have been able to tour with New Kids On The Block, Akon and Beyoncé, as well as releasing another album and an even bigger single [‘Impossible’]. It’s just been incredible to see the growth and to keep it going.

    You’ll have a lot of stories to tell the kids then…
    Yeah, whenever they come along, but I am not ready for that yet.

    If you hadn’t taken a risk and left law school to pursue your music career, you might have found yourself acting as Lindsay Lohan’s lawyer instead of singing and writing music. Would you say the gamble has paid off?
    [Laughs] I would say it’s paid off, because music is my number one passion, it’s my baby! So the fact it is really working out for me is good, but like I said before, the knowledge of the law comes in really handy because obviously there is a business side to music.

    Where does your album No Gravity fit in with the Shontelle journey?
    I would say No Gravity is a reflection of where I was at the point when I was putting it all together. I also had the introduction with Shontelligence, which everybody knew as [by] the island girl from Barbados. I felt that I needed people to know I didn’t just do slow ballads – I also like dance music and going to parties as well as shaking my bootay.

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    Shontelle’s ‘glad Leona Lewis turned down Impossible’

    Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

    shontelleShontelle has said that she is glad Leona Lewis turned down the chance to record her hit song Impossible’. Speaking to Flavour Magazine, the singer-songwriter admitted that she doesn’t know why the former X Factor winner declined the track.

    Shontelle said: “I have been hearing that rumour for a long time but I didn’t believe it until it was actually confirmed while I was in Norway. I was like, ‘Wow! I’m glad you turned it down… because I got to sing it!’

    “People turn down songs for different reasons. I don’t know what her reasons were – maybe she couldn’t relate to it at the time. Either way I’m happy that I sang it for all those heartbroken people.”

    Asked about co-writing ‘Man Down’ with Rihanna for her fellow Barbadian’s Loud album, Shontelle said: “I randomly got a call while she was on the ‘Last Girl On Earth’ tour, and she was like, ‘Dude, I need you, I’m working on this song. I know you’re the perfect person.’

    “She was actually in the studio when I was writing it, which was such a good vibe. I guess when I work with other people I tend to draw off the energy from that person.”

    Source: DigitalSpy

    PHOTOS: Shontelle performs @ 944 ‘ONE’ in Detroit

    Thursday, January 20th, 2011

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    944 Detroit recently sponsored an event named “ONE” that was held January 14, 2011 at Motorcity Casino’s Sound Board. The event was to help kick off auto show week with the reveal of the New Lexus CT 200H as well as a celebration for 944 Magazine One Year Anniversary. Shontelle performed for the crowd, click here or the banner above to view pics.

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    ‘Barbados Today’ interviews Shontelle (December 31, 2010)

    Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

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    Barbadian songbird Shontelle talks about her breakthrough experience. No time for gravity: on the grind 24/7. While she admits it could feel like “breathing under water” at times, homegrown songstress and songwriter extraordinaire, Shontelle Layne, is doing what it takes to make it to the peak of the pop music industry.

    Happily relaxing at her St. James home for just over a week now, Shontelle reports she has easily returned to island time, clocking a heavy rotation of the beach, friends and family before she leaves on January 9 (to ensure she can be in Barbados for her mother Beverley Layne’s birthday the day before) to jump back into the heat of the hustle.

    She reveals plans of a repackaged No Gravity, which features the smash single Impossible, a possible image tweak and more touring to expose as many people to her talent. But to achieve the dream, the hours are long and the schedule is longer.

    “My schedule was so hectic that there were times that I would not hear my mother for like, two weeks, because I would just be on the go all the time. [My family] would be a bit upset that in order for them to keep up with me they would have to follow me on Twitter or Facebook to see where I was going. But once they saw my schedule, that anger and disappointment would turn into concern, and my mother would message me to ask me if I ate, and [find out] when was the last time I slept,” she tells Barbados TODAY via a recent telephone interview.

    And this year was a perfect example. “It has been so crazy for me! Impossible has been doing really well on the Billboard charts, so I have been busy with touring and gigs, and we are also preparing to launch some boots with Caterpillar soon, so I had some photo shoots to do for that, and I recently came back from Malaysia doing some work with the Guess campaign.”

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    Shontelle featured in VainStyle Magazine (December 2010)

    Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

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    Vain Style Magazine have released their latest Fall/Winter 2010 issue. It’s contents feature; Travie McCoy, Roc Nation’s Range, International phenom Shontelle and SFPL’s Rae Holliday, just to name a few. Shontelle’s spread consist of a T-Shirt feature. The magazine can be viewed digitally over at VainStyle - skip to page 45.