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In May 2009, [[Aubrey Graham|Drake]] spoke to MuchMusic about Verse 2 of his song "Deceiving" addressing speculation of his past relationship with Chante,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/aubrey-drake-graham-is-rihannas-new-man-2009052016345 |title=Aubrey Drake Graham is Rihanna’s new man! &#124; Entertainment Biz! |publisher=Entertainmentandshowbiz.com |date=2009-05-20 |accessdate=2010-07-18}}</ref> "Would I call Keshia Chante an ex? I'd be proud to say she is an ex. I'm proud to say we had our time, when we were, like 16 years old. She's great. She's one of the first people in the industry that I met, we just connected."<ref>{{cite web|author=By brianna on February 27, 2010 at 6:41 pm |url=http://blog.muchmusic.com/drake-talks-young-love-with-keshia-chante/ |title=Drake Talks Young Love with Keshia ChantĂŠ &#124; MuchMusic.com &#124; Blog |publisher=Blog.muchmusic.com |date=2009-05-20 |accessdate=2010-07-18}}</ref>
In May 2009, [[Aubrey Graham|Drake]] spoke to MuchMusic about Verse 2 of his song "Deceiving" addressing speculation of his past relationship with Chante,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/aubrey-drake-graham-is-rihannas-new-man-2009052016345 |title=Aubrey Drake Graham is Rihanna’s new man! &#124; Entertainment Biz! |publisher=Entertainmentandshowbiz.com |date=2009-05-20 |accessdate=2010-07-18}}</ref> "Would I call Keshia Chante an ex? I'd be proud to say she is an ex. I'm proud to say we had our time, when we were, like 16 years old. She's great. She's one of the first people in the industry that I met, we just connected."<ref>{{cite web|author=By brianna on February 27, 2010 at 6:41 pm |url=http://blog.muchmusic.com/drake-talks-young-love-with-keshia-chante/ |title=Drake Talks Young Love with Keshia ChantĂŠ &#124; MuchMusic.com &#124; Blog |publisher=Blog.muchmusic.com |date=2009-05-20 |accessdate=2010-07-18}}</ref>

Keshia briefly dated CP Records alumni and management partner, Manny Dion.


In June 2010, eTalk Daily and Entertainment Tonight Canada broke the news that Chante and NHL netminder [[Ray Emery]] had began dating. Emery has been featured as the love interest in her music video for "Test Drive".<ref>http://watch.tsn.ca/off-the-record/off-the-record---november-18/</ref><ref>http://www.senstown.com/2010/08/ray-emery-x-keshia-chante.html</ref><ref>http://www.keshiachante.com</ref><ref>http://keshiachante.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/happy-birthday-ray/</ref><ref>http://keshiachante.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/tour-guide-with-chante-le-germaine-panorama/</ref>
In June 2010, eTalk Daily and Entertainment Tonight Canada broke the news that Chante and NHL netminder [[Ray Emery]] had began dating. Emery has been featured as the love interest in her music video for "Test Drive".<ref>http://watch.tsn.ca/off-the-record/off-the-record---november-18/</ref><ref>http://www.senstown.com/2010/08/ray-emery-x-keshia-chante.html</ref><ref>http://www.keshiachante.com</ref><ref>http://keshiachante.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/happy-birthday-ray/</ref><ref>http://keshiachante.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/tour-guide-with-chante-le-germaine-panorama/</ref>

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Keshia Chanté

Keshia Chanté (born Keshia Chanté Harper on June 16, 1988) is a Canadian Juno Award-winning critically acclaimed, singer, songwriter, model, and actress[3] She signed to BMG Music Canada at the age of 14[4][5] and has released two albums.[6]

Chanté has won many awards, including a Juno Award, "Best New Artist" at the Canadian Radio Awards and Urban Music Awards, as well as "Video of the Year" and "Fans Choice".[7]

She is called the Canadian "Princess of Pop".[8]

She is known in the U.S. for her "Bad Boy" video that was in heavy rotation on BET,[9] her guest appearance in Bow Wow & Chris Brown's "Shortie Like Mine" video and constant media attention surrounding her personal life.

After a three-year hiatus, in November 2010 Chante released 2 videos for "Table Dancer" and "Test Drive", new singles off of her new album Night & Day, slated for release in Spring 2011.

Early life

Keshia Chanté was born on June 16, 1988 in Ottawa, Ontario and she went to St. Peter Catholic High School and then moved to a suburb of Toronto, Brampton, Ontario, at the age of 14 and continued high school at Fletchers Meadow Secondary School. Her father is of Trinidadian descent and her mother is of Portuguese descent.[1][10]

Chanté took part in several school talent shows. It was at one competition for St. Peter Catholic High School, where she attended, that Chante would get noticed by a local deejay. Ottawa DJ Trevor Mason sent in a tape of the young performer singing to BMG Canada big wig Ivan Berry. It was eight years later that she would get a call from Berry that would change her life forever. After performing an impromptu song over the phone, Keshia was invited into Toronto for a live audition that eventually led to a record deal.[11]

Chanté balanced high school and her new found career, by traveling to Toronto on weekends to begin recording for her debut album. In 2004, she moved to Toronto to better balance work and school. She chose to continue school by attending Fletcher's Meadow Secondary School, and graduated as a straight-A student with her class in 2007, her final year being with a private tutor.[5]

For fashion inspirations, Chanté cites Jennifer Lopez and Donatella Versace.[12]

Music career

2003–05: Keshia Chanté

Her debut single "Shook (The Answer)" was released in early 2003. It was only meant to be a "buzz" single but it surprisingly broke into the Top 10 on Canadian music charts and won an Urban Music Award for "Best Pop/R&B Single". For the follow-up, "Unpredictable" went #1 on both radio & video charts,[7] she released her first video, which hit number one on YTV and the top ten on MuchMusic. In November 2003, the CD single of "Unpredictable" was certified gold. Because of that single, in 2003, she won the Canadian Radio Music Award for "Best New Solo Artist". It also became the highest selling CD single in Canada and the only Canadian artist to do so, other than Shania Twain.

In early February 2004, Chanté's third single, "Bad Boy", was released. It was also successful, breaking the Top 5 on radio and becoming the #1 video on MuchMusic for 4 weeks. The video was directed by director Little X.[13] Later, in June 2004, Chanté topped the charts again (Top 5) with the release of her fourth single "Does He Love Me?" ft. Foxy Brown which Chanté & Foxy Brown wrote and "Young Gav" (Foxy Brown's older brother) produced. The video was also directed by Little X and became #1 on MuchMusic for 3 weeks. The video also garnered her an Urban Music Video Award for "Video of the Year".

On June 22, 2004 Chanté released her self-titled debut album. On December 3, 2004 it was certified gold. It contained her previous singles, as well as her later to be released fifth "Let the Music Take You" penned by Chanté. In October 2004, at the Canadian Urban Music Awards Chanté swept all three of nominations, winning awards for "Best New Artist", "Video of the Year" (for Bad Boy), "Fans' Choice Award" and by surprise taking home the "Rising Star of the Year" award.[11] In that same month, she also sang the national anthem at the Canadian Football League's Grey Cup.[7]

In November 2006, Chante did her first American interview with BET's Rated Next.[14]

In December 2004, Chante headlined Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto for New Year's Eve.[15] In February 2005, Chante won Chartattack Awards for "Best Album" and "Sexiest Female". During the same month, she was also selected to represent Canada at Expo 2005 held in Japan.

In July 2005, Chanté went on a cross Canada mall and venue tour sponsored by Solo Mobile (Bell), EckoRed and SPC sponsored Chante's tour across Canada which helped raise awareness for phone counseling service Kids Help Phone.

In September 2005, Chante performed on tour with Destiny's Child throughout Canada during there Destiny Fulfilled ... And Lovin' It tour, and is also included on the Destiny's Child Live In Atlanta Tour DVD.

In October 2005, Chante received four nominations at the Urban Music Awards.[16]

2006–07: 2U

After her signing, Chanté moved to New York to begin working on her second album. During that time, Chanté was on Teen People Magazines "Rock The Runway" Mall Tour (where Ciara started) and Seventeen Magazine's "Rock N' Shop" Mall Tour (where Britney Spears started). In May 2006, she posted 3 brand new songs, "Been Gone", "Kiss" and "Summer Love" on MySpace.

In March 2006 she released her "2U" Album teaser single, "Ring The Alarm", which was used for WarChild's "Keep The Beat" charity campaign. All the proceeds from "Ring The Alarm" went to supported children at war and was also featured on triple platinum compilation "MuchDance 2006".

In July of that year, she released her single "Been Gone", produced by Philadelphia's Matrax Productions. The video was shot by Little X (making it her 3rd collaboration with him) and was shot inside of "Fletcher's Meadow Secondary School" where Chanté attended in her last year of school and graduated. Her second single, "2U", produced by Matrax was released in early November. 2U's video was shot on October 22 in Miami by director Bobby O'Neill, and was released on Yahoo Music Canada on November 16.

Also in 2006, Chanté made a featured cameo appearance in label mate Bow Wow's video "Shortie Like Mine". The video depicts Rapper Bow Wow searching for Keshia Chanté on his laptop. They send messages back and forth throughout the video.

Her second album, in which Chanté executive produced[6] was released on December 5, 2006 in Canada through Sony BMG Canada and was released in May 2007 in Japan. Chanté refused to finish promoting her album to its full potential because of "dirty label politics" infuriating her to back away from her album and begin working on a new one, which is her upcoming third album.[17]

2008–present: The Vendetta

Universal Music Canada will release Keshia Chante's first singles from her upcoming 2 disc album, The Vendetta (Night & Day). Both singles will be released on October 12 as a digital 45 in Canada. "Test Drive" from the Day side of the album will be sent to video while "Table Dancer", from the Night side of the album, will be sent to Pop radio.

"Table Dancer" was released October 12 and the music video was released November 24 via VEVO. The music video was directed by RT! and filming took place in Downtown Toronto. So far the single has reached #38 on the Canadian Hot 100, accumulating an audience of over 5,000,000 and #24 on the Top 40. The single has also entered the Canadian iTunes R&B/Soul Chart and peaked at #6.

Other work

Acting career

In 2006, Chanté starred as herself in the indie flick "Cats Cradle".[18] In 2007 she had a guest starring role in "Da Kink in My Hair".[18] In August 2008, Chanté got the lead role in a television series titled Soul, which filmed for several months in Halifax. In February 2009, Soul began to air on VisionTV throughout Canada.[19]

Philanthropy

Keshia in 2009.

Chante worked closely with Alicia Keys to throw a fundraising concert to help build awareness about AIDS with the Stephen Lewis Foundation[20][21] and was a part of BET'S Rap-It-Up campaign.

In 2008, she visited Dominican Republic to work with World Vision.[22][23] She has also been a part of three consecutive WorldVision 30 Hour Famine's and has been a part of many of their campaigns and advertisements endorsing the event.

Chante also developed the Roger's Love Music Speaking Tour where she spoke to school students across Canada and donated tens of thousands of dollars to their music programs.[24]

She has contributed to WarChild's Keep The Beat campaign donating the proceeds of her singles to them, as well as the proceeds that came from her songs inclusion into the MuchMusic's MuchDance compilations.

In November 2010, CANFAR announced Chante as there official Youth Ambassador. She participated in World AIDS Day doing a media tour with CANFAR President Christopher Bunting.[25]

Products and endorsements

In November 2010, Chante became the face of Pepsi and their Pepsi Refresh Project campaign, with Pepsi presenting Chante's video "Table Dancer". Chante is the face of Ontario Tourism and sings the theme song "There's No Place Like This" in their commercials.[26] Chanté is the face of the Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Camera[1] and was the face of EckoRed in 2006. In 2005, Solo Mobile (Bell), EckoRed and SPC sponsored Chante's tour across Canada which helped raise awareness for phone counseling service Kids Help Phone.[27] Chante has collaborated with Smarties in music video "Test Drive".

Image and personal life

As Chanté has matured, greater interest in her fashion choices began. The New York Times and the L'Oreal Fashion Week committee declared Keshia Chanté a fashion icon for pioneering the "Glamour Mystique" look.[citation needed] Chanté has been known to have an aesthetic of mixing super high fashion with lower end as a way of "connecting to her younger fans." [citation needed]

In Canada, Chanté is considered a Fashionista by fashion's high rankings.[28] Her style has been described as "glamorous" meets "sexy elegance" by Holt Renfrew executives.[28]

In October 2009, Chanté acquired stock in Guess's upscale fashion brand Marciano. Chanté also co-owns the Marciano Store in Toronto's Yorkdale Shopping Center.[29]

Chante regularly attends front row at Fashion Week with her outfits anticipated and documented. In 2010, she attended Evan Biddell's show and appeared in his opening runway video.[30]

Relationships

Chante has been friendly linked to Chris Brown[31] whom she met in 2006 after doing a TV meetup show together.[32] They began a definite friendship afterwards.[32] Some media outlets, mainly TMZ[33] reported that Chante was the "other woman" in the Chris Brown assault against Rihanna[34] claiming Chante was the woman who sent the text message[33][34] but Chante's rep's heavily denied that claim.[33][35] Chante was in fact in LA during the incident.[32] In November 2009, Rihanna confirmed it was an argument over a text message from a past Brown relationship that triggered the altercation. Actor/rapper Drake had a relationship with Chante.[36]

In May 2009, Drake spoke to MuchMusic about Verse 2 of his song "Deceiving" addressing speculation of his past relationship with Chante,[37] "Would I call Keshia Chante an ex? I'd be proud to say she is an ex. I'm proud to say we had our time, when we were, like 16 years old. She's great. She's one of the first people in the industry that I met, we just connected."[38]

In June 2010, eTalk Daily and Entertainment Tonight Canada broke the news that Chante and NHL netminder Ray Emery had began dating. Emery has been featured as the love interest in her music video for "Test Drive".[39][40][41][42][43]

Awards and nominations

2003

  • Canadian Urban Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single for "Shook (The Answer)" - Won
  • Canadian Radio Music Award for "Best New Solo Artist" (Dance Urban Rhythmic) - Nominated[44]
  • Canadian Radio Music Award for "Best New Solo Artist" (CHR) - Won[44]

2004

  • Canadian Urban Music Award for Best New Artist - Won
  • Canadian Urban Music Award for Video Of The Year for "Bad Boy" - Won
  • Canadian Urban Music Award for Fans Choice - Won
  • Rising Star Award for Rising Star of the Year - Won
  • MuchMusic Video Award for "Best R&B Video" for "Does He Love Me?" - Nominated

2005

  • Juno Award for "R&B/Soul Recording Of The Year" - Won[45]
  • Canadian Urban Music Award for "Video Of The Year" for "Does He Love Me?" - Won
  • MuchMusic Video Award for "People's Choice: Favorite Canadian Artist" - Nominated
  • MuchMusic Video Award for "Best Pop Video" for "Does He Love Me?" - Nominated
  • Juno Award for "New Artist of the Year" - Nominated

2011

  • Juno Award for "Dance Recording Of The Year" for "Table Dancer" - TBA
  • Juno Award for "R&B/SOUL Recording Of The Year" for "Test Drive" - TBA

Discography

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
CAN
[46]
2003 "Shook (The Answer)" 10 Keshia Chanté
"Unpredictable" 1
2004 "Bad Boy" 1
"Does He Love Me?" (featuring Foxy Brown) 1
"Let the Music Take You" 5
2005 "Come Fly With Me" 54
2006 "Ring the Alarm" 48 2U
"Been Gone" 69
"2U" 87
2007 "Fallen" (featuring Freeway) 98
2010 "Table Dancer"[47] 44 Night & Day

[48][49]

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  6. ^ a b dancer[1]
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