Who says only adults can influence the world? Teenagers can too. A good 1 is 20-year-old Canadian singer and songwriter Shawn Mendes.
Mendes is on Time magazine's list of the most influential teens of 2017. He is 2 as a role model (榜样) who always shares 3 ideas on social media (媒体).
Indeed, unlike others, Mendes uses social media in a good way. In 2012, he was still a high school student. One day, he put a clip (片段) of 4 singing Justin Bieber's song As Long as You Love Me on Vine, a video-sharing app. In only six seconds, he 5 to show his sweet voice and cute smile. By the next morning, he had 10,000 likes.
From there, he became a singer. His first album Handwritten topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2015. At 20 years old, he's the youngest artist on the Forbes Famous People 100 list thanks 6 to a strong showing on the road. He played over twenty festivals across Canada and 27 European shows.
Mendes 7tries to be himself. "There are lots of people who say 'act this way' and 'talk this way' on social media, but 8 worked for me was just being myself," he told Seventeen, a US teenager magazine. He keeps putting his music videos, good or bad, online.
He does so in life as well. During his first concert in Toronto, he asked for the house lights to be 9 and he sang without a microphone. A guitar accompanied (陪伴) him. "So I can see their faces, and see there are real people, that it's not just a 10," he told The Telegraph. "I'm not the best singer in the world. I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like," he added.
