Check out this exclusive HQ scan of Shontelle featured in the December 5th issue of Billboard Magazine, in stores today! For those who might not be familiar with Billboard Magazine, it is one of the most popular music magazines in the US for music industry professionals and fans.

The article also introduces four of the other upcoming young, gifted and talented Barbadian artists who relocated to the U.S. in search of stateside success (Vita Chambers, Jaicko, Hal Linton & Livvi Franc), who without a doubt are all going to get it! Get familiar!

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Check out Shontelle in this September’s issue of InStyle Magazine (UK). It features the R&B songstress beautifully showing the latest trends in the ever popular smokey eye. Make sure you check out these HQ magazine scans below. She looks extraordinarily beautiful!

Adele Roberts from GalaxyLife (UK) caught up with Bajan beauty Shontelle to chat about boys, Tinchy Stryder and Alesha Dixon’s legs. Listen to the exclusive interview below:

ONSTAGE MUST – The saucy songbird “can’t live without shimmer for a performance.” She loves GIRLACTIK sparkle shadow, she’s been late to gigs for taking the time to dust it on!

OFF-DUTY STAPLE – During her downtime, Shontelle moisturizes from head to toe with CAROL’S DAUGHTER Body Butter. The rich formulas keep her skin “ready to rock and roll”.

GUILTY PLEASURE – “I love everything from L’OCCITANE.” she says, “especially the hand cream.” She stashes it in her purse for impromptu meet and greets with fans.

SKIN REMEDY – This Barbados native has been using VEET Hair Removal Gel Cream since she was on the national swim team as a teen. “My legsstay smooth for such a long time; It’s perfect for when I’m touring.”

STRAND SAVER - The “small and portable” TIGI BED HEAD Superficial Smoothing Liquid adds loads of shine and fits into any bag for on-the-go touch-ups.

Click Here to check out the magazine scan which also features Ciara and Lily Allen!

Shontelle is featured in the Reinventing Beauty Magazine (Handbook) – May/June issue. This beauty handbook is a magazine that is available in CVS Pharmacy’s across the United States.

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• Hype Hair Magazine – May/June 2009
• Vibe Magazine – November/December 2008
• Billboard Magazine – October 2008
• Essence Magazine – May 2009
• XXL Magazine – December 2008

(Thanks so much Nastya!)

As mentioned earlier, Shontelle was spotted in this month’s issue of Essence Magazine in a beautiful Veet Advertisement.  You can peep again at the previously posted Veet ads and photoshoot but most importantly check out these magazine scans!

(Thanks Rayana!)

Shontelle is in this month’s issue of Essence Magazine! with Michelle Obama and her mother on the cover! Shontelle’s advertisement spread in the magazine is on page 15, showing off her hot VEET legs!

For those people living in NYC, don’t miss out partying with Shontelle at the VEET Soiree event on May 6th. (You can find out more here)

Anyone who has this magazine or plans to purchase it, please send in a scan to us at sholayonline@gmail.com - Thanks alot!

Updated the gallery with a few magazine scans of Shontelle from the Hype Hair Magazine (January 2009) and OK! Magazine (September 2008)  – Also added more pictures from the Mad Tee Party hosted by Shontelle (sponsored by Vibe & Hanes) back in November.

We’re still hoping someone has the Rap-Up or Vibe Magazine (December 2008) issues, we would love scans! Please send them in to sholayonline@gmail.com

(Thanks Nastya!)

Shontelle Layne was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, becoming the oldest of her three sisters. At school she was a first class academic student. It was during high school that she first met Barbados’ current international star, Rihanna. They were both active cadets in a sub-military organization and Shontelle was actually Rihanna’s drill sergeant though at the time she never knew that Rihanna was a singer.

She never could have predicted that they would both end up being signed to major record labels through the same production company. Shontelle has been surrounded by strong women. Kim Derrick, her aunt, a celebrated Bajan musician, could see her potential at a very early age.

Shontelle’s musical influences range first and foremost from local Bajan artists and classic Motown and everywhere else in music. Working with Universal and running her own publishing company Shontelle took time out of her busy schedule to talk to Teen Scene and fill us in on her life.

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She might not have an Umbrella, but Shontelle does rock a t-shirt well. The Barbados-born singer and friend of Rhi-Rhi tells Hattie Collins all about the Bajan Invasion headed our way…

“Barbados, we definitely want to be in the spotlight,” laughs 23 year-old Bajan singer Shontelle. “We’re such a tiny little rock and so it’s a cool thing going on in here. The rest of the world is realising it’s small, but there’s a lot of talent there.”

Indeed, it might have taken a minute, but after the ascent of Rihanna to Queen of all Pop, there are finally other Bajan artists ready to snap at the Umbrella star’s little Louboutin’s. “Since Rihanna broke, it made all the artists say ‘Ok, we’ve had it! We’re going to let anyone resist us anymore,’” enthuses the SRC signed singer. “Rihanna’s success has been extremely important to Barbados; our attitudes towards music have changed, and kids are dreaming like we’ve never dreamed before.”

It’s not just their birthplaces and love of the microphone that the two have in common; Rihanna and Shontelle have been homegirls since the latter was the former’s Drill Sergeant at Cadets. During their time, the Soca, Missy and Prince fan made Rihanna drop and squat a fair few times. “Yeah, I had her doing some push ups,” she laughs, before adding Rihanna has since promised she doesn’t hold it against her.

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In this weeks TV Week Magazine (Australia), Shontelle is featured in the song review section for her single ‘T-Shirt’ and was rated 7/10 – Check out the scan! (Thanks Melissa!)

Already being dubbed “the new Rihanna” and even “the female answer to Ne-Yo”, 23-year-old Barbados born-and-raised singer/writer Shontelle Layne enjoys a bright’n’breezy afternoon chat with Pete Lewis over drinks at West London’s media-friendly K-West Hotel.

Initially discouraged from going into show-business by her more academic and business-minded parents, Shontelle spent much of her adolescence representing her native Barbados in international swimming and track-and-field events while also enjoying a lengthy stint as an army cadet. Nevertheless, as time went on – with her delivering A-grade after A-grade at school – Shontelle’s love for music became difficult to suppress. And, with her aunt being popular Bajan singer Kim Derrick, she began writing songs for other people while still in her teens.

Meanwhile, by her early twenties – utilising everything she was learning from her Media Law course at University – an ambitious Ms. Layne was already setting up her own publishing company. With her first major break coming when she wrote the internationally-successful ‘Roll It’ for Caribbean soca songstress Alison Hinds, Shontelle instantly found herself the recipient of numerous prestigious awards in her homeland. Which in turn attracted the attention of New York-based producer/writers Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken (who additionally happen to be the managers of Shontelle’s childhood friend and Barbados’ hottest musical export, global pop/R&B superstar Rihanna).

With Rogers and Sturken securing Shontelle a recording deal with SRC/Universal Motown (also home to worldwide urban chart-topper Akon), her debut album – the wittily-titled ’Shontelligence‘ – arrives this month. Pioneered by its catchy, sexy UK Top 10 single ‘T-Shirt’, said LP boasts production from the likes of Stargate (Ne-Yo/Beyonce); Wayne Wilkins (Leona Lewis); and Supa Dups (Estelle). Its musical moods ranging from uplifting pop/R&B moments like the motivational ‘Battle Cry’ and acoustic guitar-laced ‘Superwoman’; to the stringy, Sixties-tinged loper ‘Cold Cold Summer’; plus the message-driven reggae chug of ’Life Is Not An Easy Road’.

Taking time out from her UK arena tour supporting New Kids On The Block, an articulate and talkative Shontelle – who now resides in Westchester, upstate New York – gives ‘B&S’ the lowdown. (click read more to read the full interview)

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Source: Shabeau Magazine (Thanks Joan Ward!)

The latest sensation to emerge out of Barbados, Shontelle, is making her mark on the international music scene. The 23-year-old is blazing up the music charts with her catchy tune T-shirt, the first single from her recently-released debut album Shontelligence, which continues to zoom up the Billboard Pop 100 Airplay chart.

Shontelle talks to Anmarie Blake for LiME…

Within a month of its release, T-shirt was being played by over 150 mainstream Top 40 and rhythmic-crossover radio stations across America. In addition, the track’s video has drawn well over a million audio streams on Shontelle’s MySpace page and a similar number of video hits on YouTube. There is no doubt, Shontelle has arrived on the world stage.

While it may seem like she is living a charmed life – and she will be the first to admit that it feels that way – Shontelle is no overnight success. Earning her stripes on the Caribbean music scene, she received accolades as a songwriter, penning lyrics for the likes of the queen of soca, Alison Hinds, among others. In 2006 Roll, which she wrote for Hinds, became an international soca hit and anthem for women in the region.

Recently signed to Syndicated Rhythm Productions (SRP)/Universal Motown Records, the same label that led Rihanna to Stardom, Shontelle is seeing her dream of a career in music become reality. [full article]

LiME is an Inflight Magazine for LIAT, it is one of the Popular Caribbean Airlines.

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