Keshia Chanté (born as Keshia-Chanté Harper on June 16, 1988), coincidentally the same day as her Idol, Tupac Shakur, is a Canadian Juno Award-winning R&B/Pop singer, songwriter, actress and Ford model.
Keshia was born in Ottawa, Ontario and she went to St. Peter Catholic High School and then moved to Brampton, Ontario at the age of 14. She then attended Fletcher's Meadow Secondary School, and graduated with her class in 2007. Her father is of Trinidadian descent and her mother is of Portuguese and Puerto Rican descent.