Shaun V

SHAUN V - NAMED "BEST MALE NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR" at People Magazine's Crystal Awards in 2007!Shaun V has enjoyed a meteoric rise in South Africa’s Music Industry and was lauded in January 2007 by People Magazine as “An Artist to look out for in 2007”!Starting performing professionally at just 20 years of age, Shaun was initially known for his appearances on many stages countrywide as part of the high profile Boy Band, Hi-5, of which he was a member for 3 years. During that period 2002-2005, Hi-5 received many achievements including Crescendo Winners (2003), Africa Vision Winners (2004) and winning the GMT Best Music Video Award (2005). A career highlight has been performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London in May 2005 as part of the “Nataniel and Friends” show.Shaun left Hi-5 in January 2006 in order to follow a Solo Career and was immediately snapped up by Showtime Management Theatre Company to be a part of the international hit musical Production, “We Will Rock You” where he was understudy to the lead role, Galileo, receiving rave reviews on the South African nationwide tour.In what little spare time Shaun has, he is committed to supporting worthwhile charitable causes and in 2007 he spent most of the year being involved in the nationwide Variety HUG-A-THON Campaign. He was billed as “the voice of the campaign” as his original track, “This Love Could Be”, was used for the Charity’s Television Advertising Campaign. Shaun donated all rights of this song to Variety, for the duration of the campaign.In 2007 Shaun fulfilled a life-long ambition to be a part of the memorable “RENT” family when he auditioned and won the lead role of Roger Davis in the South African national tour of the Broadway hit, once again receiving rave reviews for his performance.Most of 2008 was spent as part of the "We Will Rock You" cast, this time on a 7-month tour around Asia, with visits to Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok. Shaun was once again the understudy to the lead, Galileo and got to perform the role to the Asian audiences once a week.Whilst on tour, Shaun was approached to record the central love theme "Not Human" for the South African movie "BAKGAT!" Shaun jumped at the chance and flew back from Korea - before needing to travel to Singapore - and recorded the song as well as filmed the music video! BAKGAT! was a hit and audiences loved the poignant moment "Not Human" adds to the movie!2009 started with a bang when Shaun was contacted from New York to headline the inaugural “Broadway in South Africa” event staged in South Africa by this prestigious group of New York-based performers, raising funds for the Keep a Child Alive initiative, co-founded by Alicia Keys. This high profile event, staged in both Cape Town and Johannesburg, was a hit, and Shaun loved reprising some of the hits from RENT in the show.February 2009 saw Shaun and his team travelling to Los Angeles, USA to explore some international opportunities, and made some exciting contacts and worked with a wonderful production team in studio recording some demos. Not too much can be said right at this moment while plans are currently still being finalised, but things look good for Shaun to return to LA in the near future to continue recording....Shaun is currently under the radar, working on a number of exciting projects which can hopefully be made public soon. Watch this space!
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