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Keshia Chanté is a Canadian singer-songwriter, television personality, actress, philanthropist, fashion icon, is the Host of BET's 106 and Park and a judge on YTV's The Next Star.
She is known in Canada as a singer. She signed to BMG Music Canada at the age of 13, and has released three albums in Canada. She is currently signed to Universal Music Canada.
She has had eight Top Ten singles at radio with songs Shook, Unpredictable, Bad Boy, Does He Love Me?, Been Gone, 2U, Fallen & Table Dancer Chanté has won many awards, including a Juno Award, "Best New Artist" at the Canadian Radio Awards and five Urban Music Awards, as well as "Video of the Year" and "Fans Choice".
She is known in the United States for being a night time talk show host on BET's 106 & Park alongside Bow Wow. She is said to play Aaliyah in the upcoming motion picture about the singer's life with much controversy over Chante being her doppelganger. Her "Bad Boy" music video was in heavy rotation on BET and she made a special guest appearance in Bow Wow & Chris Brown's "Shortie Like Mine" music video.
After a three-year musical hiatus, in November 2010 Chante released 2 videos for 2 new singles "Table Dancer" and "Test Drive", both off her new album Night & Day, which was released November 2011. Both singles were nominated for Juno Awards; R&B Recording of the Year for "Test Drive" and Dance Recording of the Year for "Table Dancer". With "Table Dancer" going #1 on the Billboard Charts in Japan. Making it Chanté's first song ever to chart outside of Canada. She is also the Youth Ambassador for CANFAR.
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