Keshia Chanté (born Keshia Chanté Harper on June 16, 1988) is a Canadian Juno Award-winning critically acclaimed, singer, songwriter, actress,[3], Fashionista[4] and Ford model. She signed to Sony BMG Canada at
... Keshia Chanté (born Keshia Chanté Harper on June 16, 1988) is a Canadian Juno Award-winning critically acclaimed, singer, songwriter, actress,[3], Fashionista[4] and Ford model. She signed to Sony BMG Canada at the age of 13[5][6] and as a result has released 2 major successful albums, and released 10 hit singles in Canada.[2]
Chanté has been honoured with many awards and nominations, such as "Best New Artist" at the Canadian Radio Awards and Urban Music Awards, as well as "Video of the Year", "Fans Choice" and "Sexiest Female Artist".[7]
She is best known as the Canadian "Princess of Pop"[8][9] for 8 of her #1 radio hits, such as, "Shook (The Answer)", "Unpredictable", "Bad Boy", "Does He Love Me", "Let The Music Take You", "Ring The Alarm", "Been Gone" and "2U".
She is known in the U.S. for her "Bad Boy" video that was in heavy rotation on BET,[10] her guest appearance in Bow Wow & Chris Brown's "Shortie Like Mine" video and media attention surrounding her personal life.
Chanté is scheduled to portray the late singer Aaliyah in an upcoming biopic and is currently working on her third album The Vendetta slated for spring 2010[11]. In 2004, Her resemblance to the late singer was noted and discovered by Missy Elliott.[12][13]
