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Shiloh (born April 25, 1993) is Canadian pop singer and songwriter. Shiloh was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. She signed to Universal Music in 2008 with plans to record her debut album for a 2009 release. As a songwriter, Shiloh signed a worldwide co-publishing deal with ole/tanjola.

Her songs can be heard in Gossip Girl, Dr. Dolittle 4, and What Happens in Vegas. Her first single is entitled "Operator (A Girl Like Me)" which charted on the Canadian Hot 100 and listed her as Billboard Canada's #1 Emerging Talent Artist as of December 19, 2008.

Operator (A Girl Like Me) is included on Much Dance 2009 CD. Shiloh has performed with Lady GaGa, Hedley, Theory of a Deadman, And Marianas Trench. Shiloh released her second music video, official', on January 30th, 2009, for "Goodbye, You Suck" which is her second single on her upcoming album. It debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 at 73, then fell off the charts the next week.

Her debut album is set to release in May 2009 in Canada. It will be released in the USA in summer 2009 through Universal Republic She also released a single when she was 13, that had great airplay all over Canada called "All I Want".

Shiloh biography
The kids aren't alright. Mass media is inundating them like never before with images of air-brushed perfection, absentee parents are orphaning them under the pressures of never-ending work and Earth's previous generations of polluters are leaving their future uncertain. On her debut, self-titled release, 15-year-old singer-songwriter Shiloh takes these issues to task, breathing optimism and hope into the problems of her peers like a patron saint to troubled teens. A natural-born "individual," Shiloh has defied the pressures of her time, carving out a unique style and proud sense of self - now, she's hoping to inspire others to do the same through her music.

On ruckus, up-tempo, first-single "Operator (A Girl Like Me)," Shiloh offers a virtual riot call against media messages telling her what she should be and defiantly proclaiming she doesn't want to be anything but the girl she already is - not some "drastic, spastic, superficial, plastic clone."

"When kids are growing up in their teens, they look at magazines and think they have to be super skinny and absolutely gorgeous," the self-assured Shiloh explains. "There is just that constant pressure to be that perfect model on the front of the magazine. People need to realise that's not going to happen because that's not a real person. It's Photoshop and it's technology."

With a wisdom well above her young age and a thunderous voice not expected from her stature, Shiloh's clamouring, rock-pop tunes relate to her peers in a way nothing sung by a thirty-something pandering to the youth can - because she understands the issues she sings about firsthand. And yet no matter how difficult the topic, her music always shines through with a ray of cheerful optimism.

On "You're Not Alone," Shiloh sings about her loner generation that has seen teachers and parents become disconnected from misunderstood teens desperately looking for acceptance. And through the song, she urges those who feel alone to know there are people out there who understand.

"There are a lot of problems out in the world right now and kids are going out and getting into drugs because their parents aren't home to teach their kids to make their decisions," Shiloh explains. "Kids are left to make their own decisions and usually it's the wrong ones."

Shiloh, who has literally been singing since she started talking, has been lucky to have the support of her family while going through the difficult teenage years and discovering who she is. But that's not to say it has always been easy. On sweeping, piano-driven, power-ballad "It's Not Me," she relates the pressures of people trying to force her to change herself to fit their own ideals.

"I've had people who I thought were my friends try to change me into being something different. Teachers saying 'Why are you coming to school with black nail polish on your nails? What's wrong with you?' when every other girl in my class is wearing pink on their nails. Well, it's because I like it," Shiloh explains, adding her outspoken nature often left her sitting in the principal's office.

But it's the individuality that once got her in trouble and the roaring voice that once caused painful envy from her friends that are now getting Shiloh noticed. The talented, young singer impressed producers and management so much while recording her debut, she was able to co-write half the album. The first song she finished completely on her own, "Ruin Me," is a hauntingly sparse stand-out addition to the album, which features nothing but piano, strings and Shiloh's trembling vocals. Fittingly, it's about her struggle to come to terms with who she really is.

"Every kid goes through a time when they don't know who they are or what they're going to do with their life. I was just trying to search to find that out," she says of the song's inspiration. "I was almost a mute. I didn't really have a relationship with any of my family because I kind of refused to. I would just sit in my room by myself and my outside life was more of a life with my friends, not my family, because I was trying to figure out who I was. I found it was hurting a lot of people around me, so I wrote a song about it."

Now firm in herself, Shiloh has signed a world-wide publishing deal with tanjola/ole and already had several high-profile music synchronizations, including tracks in "Dr. Doolittle 4," "What Happens in Vegas" and "Gossip Girl." She also won Edmonton CHUM radio station's contest "The Bounce Showdown," which left judges insisting she provide ID, not believing someone so young could be so talented and mature.

One listen to her self-titled debut, and you'll likely be wondering the same.

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