Check out this pretty hot unseen Shontelle photoshoot from 2009 with Amit & Naroop.

Check out this gorgeous photoshoot Shontelle recently had with MTV, photos courtesy of the photographer Circe Baumgartner. Last week we teased fans with the above outtake on our new Tumblr, you can now check out the rest of pictures by clicking the banner above!

“Easy… Breezy… Beautiful… Covergirl”

Check out the official HQ album cover for Shontelle’s anticipated sophomore album ‘No Gravity’ (due September 21th). The leading hit single “IMPOSSIBLE” now stands #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and holds strong in the iTunes Top 20! Make sure you spread the word and pre-order the album available now on Amazon in the US & UK!

PRE-ORDER “NO GRAVITY: USA / UK

Keep requesting “Impossible” at your local radio stations!

Barbados born singer Shontelle was spotted leaving her OUCH magazine cover photoshoot in NYC on Thursday (April 22). She is currently promoting her new video, “IMPOSSIBLE” and her 2nd album, No Gravity, which is set to be released this Summer.

Photo Credits: Concreteloop / TAJ Washingston

Exclusive promos from “No Gravity” due this Summer on SRP/Universal Motown!

Special thanks to Rodrigo & Ed for the HQ photos!

Congrats to Shontelle for landing her first magazine cover in the USA! We’re not sure when it will be published but should be soon, but of course we’ll post it asap when we get it!

Earlier this month, Shontelle had a photoshoot in Brooklyn (NY) with celebrity photographer “Robert Ascroft”, for her upcoming album “No Gravity“, slated for a Spring 2010 release on SRP/SRC/Universal Motown Records.

The highly anticipated sophomore album is expected to have a much harder and edgier sound, nothing like what fans would expect from her. The stunning lead single “IMPOSSIBLE” (produced by Arnthor Birgisson) impacted radio yesterday and will be available on US iTunes next week! (February 9th, 2010)

With such follow-ups as “DJ Made Me Do It“, “Kiss You Up“, “Say Hello To Goodbye“, and collaborations with hit makers Sean Garrett, “No Doubt’s” Tony Kanal, and Akon protégées Rock City, Shontelle has crafted an album loaded with smashes that will keep her high on the charts throughout 2010 and beyond. The new music video is scheduled to be shot in Los Angeles early February with director “TAJ” (Anthony Mandler’s protégé).

Last week we showed you the first official promo from Shontelle’s anticipated as yet-untitled album coming this Spring 2010! The lead single “Impossible” received amazing feedback from everyone so far and was even already added to major radio stations in the US before it’s official radio impact date on February 2, 2010!

“Licky (Under the Covers)” is being serviced to clubs, but was also added to radio stations across the US! We may really have a double headed monster coming our way!

Click the banner above to check out the promo, also being used for the “Impossible” single.

With the “Shontelligence” era is just about over, we now progress onto Shontelle’s second album coming this Spring 2010. She turns it up a notch both appearance and music wise, get ready for a whole new edgy and sexy Shontelle coming your way!

Her lead single “Impossible” along with it’s official single cover will premiere next week! Click the banner above and check out the first promo, with many more to come.

ALBUM PHOTOSHOOT (BEHIND THE SCENES FOOTAGE) – COMING NEXT WEEK!

When Shontelle Layne got a call last year saying that her song Battle Cry had been picked for Barack Obama’s campaign album Yes We Can, she started leaping up and down. The 23-year-old R&B singer from Barbados was already on the way to success: her first single, T-Shirt, a sweet, post-break-up ballad, was climbing the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and would soon reach No 6 in the UK. She already had a law degree, and had represented Barbados internationally as an athlete and swimmer. But this, Layne says, was success on another scale.

“Obama and his team really love Battle Cry,” her manager told her. “They think it speaks to his whole campaign and message.” Whether by accident or design, her lyrics seemed to fit the mood in the Democrat camp: “We’ve been through too much/ Time for us to group up/ Come on and let’s stand up now for us.” So her answer was never in doubt: “I was, like, anything I can do to help get this man into office. And that album is full of living legends: Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, Kanye West. I’m looking at this thing thinking, ‘This is all greatness on here.’ And then, whoop, there’s me in the middle.”

Layne’s surprise was understandable: her first big hit was sung by someone else – she wrote the insanely catchy tune Roll It Gal for Barbados’s big star Alison Hinds. “In our world, she’s legendary – the queen of soca,” says Layne, referring to the rolling Caribbean party music derived from calypso. “I thought, ‘She’s not gonna play some little girl’s song.’ But when I played it to other musicians, they said, ‘If Alison doesn’t like that, I’m gonna eat my foot.’”

Roll It Gal was a massive hit. This encouraged Layne to embark on her own music career. Her aunt, the celebrated Bajan singer Kim Derrick, introduced her to some people. She booked time in studios, learned the rudiments of songwriting and composing software. Her own version of Roll It Gal appears, along with T-Shirt, on her debut 2008 album Shontelligence, which veers between glossy mainstream American-style R&B and wilder soca numbers.

Why did Layne give her album that clunky title? To make the point, she says, that she is more than a pretty face. She was a very academic child, expected by her family to be a successful businesswoman. Her father runs several companies, and her mother holds a high position in the Caribbean arm of Virgin Atlantic. Layne cites Richard Branson as an inspiration: she has read his books, met him several times and even stayed on his island, Necker. She likes to see herself as a company, a brand even, and will scour the small print of every contract she signs, and go through her accounts with a fine-tooth comb. “I run my own music publishing company, and I’m always thinking about how to make my money turn over, about investments and the state of the economy – because a girl’s gotta eat. I’m really glad I studied law, too. So many other artists get taken advantage of.”

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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!)

You must check out this hot picture of Shontelle from the recent OK! Magazine photoshoot in NYC (January 2009). Click the banner above and check these ‘Veet Legs’ out!!

As promised before, Check out these pictures from the photoshoot photographer Brooke Nipar had with Shontelle in NYC for Vibe Magazine back in November 2008.

Unforunately they’re MQ tagged but it’s the best for now.

Check out these beautiful and fierce Shontelle outtakes from the Gregg Delman Photoshoot for MTV, that was taken back in September 26, 2008. Unforunately they are MQ Tagged but still worth it! hopefully soon we’ll get the High Quality photos. (Thanks so much Rodrigo!)

It seems Shontelle had a very big photoshoot recently in NYC for the famous world-spread brand ‘Veet‘. Read a blog someone recently wrote by the name of ‘Sara Scholl’.

Friday I went to Hudson Studios, 610 W St 11th ave, at 8am for a very high-budget photo shoot for Veet with Shontelle. The studio itself was amazing. Very modern, spacious, amazing lighting, and a great view that looked right over the Statue of Liberty. Set-up took about two hours, that involved getting the lighting equipment and camera ready and for Shontelle to get her hair, makeup, and wardrobe together. [...]

[...] The front of the record was actually signed by Obama with a thank you note to Shontelle for helping promote his campaign. That was awesome to see since I’m a major Obama fan. The shoot was supposed to run until 4 because Shontelle had to meet Akon for a music video [...]

Source: Sara Scholl’s Blog (Thanks ishmarsha!)

This photoshoot sounds quite interesting, i hope to get this shoot someday.