Yes she can: R&B singer Shontelle

Shontelle is an ex-cadet, a law graduate and a champion swimmer. She's also one of Obama's favourite singers. By Sophie HeawoodWhen Shontelle Layne got a call last year saying that her song Battle Cry had been picked for Barack Obama's campaign album Yes We Can, she started leaping up and down. The 23-year-old R&B singer from Barbados was already on the way to success: her first single, T-Shirt, a sweet, post-break-up ballad, was climbing the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and would soon ...

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