Mixed for the artist "Shontelle" who's debut album arrives in stores nation wide 11/18/08
Artist: Shontell
Remixer: Dj MikelD
Copyright: 2008 SRP/SRC Universal Motown/QuantumDisc Records
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Watch out world, there's a HOT breeze named SHONTELLE headed your way!
SHONTELLE is the 23 year-old Bajan singer-songwriter who’s set to take the world by storm after signing with music mogul Steve Rifkind’s SRC records. Her unique story begins in the West Indies on the beautiful Island of Barbados’ capital city of Bridgetown. The oldest of 3 sisters, SHONTELLE has always been an over-achiever who despite being at the top of her class competed across the island in several sports. However her true calling as a prolific songwriter and talented singer would draw her away from both the field and classroom and onto center stage.
Always finding activities to keep herself busy, while in high school SHONTELLE decided to attend “Cadets” camp - where she served as drill sergeant over a newcomer named Rhianna. “She was a good cadet, though there was one occasion when I had to make her drop and give me ten push-ups. We laugh about it now…I think she’s forgiven me.” Little did either of the teens know that they would remain friends and both follow the same dream of becoming international stars in the music business.
When asked to define “Shontelligence” she states, “I owe this name to SRP and The Loft Recording Studios resident engineer Al Hemberger. He came up with it while we were playing a word game with my name. We all jumped on it and thought it was fitting. "The definition of intelligence is the gathering of new knowledge or information, the ability to comprehend and profit from experience. I hunger for that knowledge. It feeds my life and my music. The more I learn, the more I want to learn...the more I grow as a person and as an artist.”
Fast forward to 2005, and the up and coming talent scores a hit heard far beyond the Caribbean as the writer of the girl-power anthem “Roll”. Producers Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken of SRP Records , who had discovered Rihanna in Barbados and brought her to the world stage, heard the song on a Bajan radio station
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