Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Shawn Cee is an American YouTube personality focusing on music reviews.
- He is also a musician.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Shawn Cee was born on October 25, 1995, in Detroit, Michigan, to a Persian mother and an African American father.
- He was raised in the state of Michigan. He has five siblings: four sisters and a brother.
- Shawn was raised in a music-loving family: his father introduced him to classics such as The Beatles as well as introducing him to the world of hip-hop through the works of Wu-Tang Clan, Tupac, Nas, Jay-Z, DMX, and The Notorious B.I.G; his mother introduced him to Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Fugees, The Temptations, Angie Stone, various Motown groups, Marvin Gaye, and LL Cool J.
- Despite focusing mostly on hip-hop and rap on his YouTube channel, Shawn has an eclectic music taste and listens to everything from folk music to metal music. He is also a huge fan of anime soundtracks.
Work : Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth
- Shawn is an avid photographer. His love for photography led him to become a YouTube personality once he started experimenting with the video feature of his DSLR camera.
- He uploaded his first music review video to YouTube in May 2016 when he reviewed Skepta’s Konnichiwa album.
- Shawn has uploaded over five hundred and ninety videos to YouTube since May 2016. He also invested in further top-grade production equipment throughout the year that caused a marked jump in video quality.
- Currently, Shawn has over six hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Shawn is also passionate about video games and has dedicated a separate YouTube channel to his game walkthroughs. He is a fan of games such as Detroit Become Human and Marvel’s Spider-Man. He has also uploaded walkthroughs of Kingdom Hearts 3, Destiny 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Black Ops 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, and Dragonball Fighter Z.
- Shawn is currently continuing to live in his home state of Michigan but has considered moving to Texas, New York City, and Canada.
- He is a great fan of FKA Twigs and the Fleet Foxes.
- Shawn started loving rap at the age of fourteen. He credits Nas’s debut album Illmatic with influencing his love for the entire genre.
- He has been following a strict workout and diet regime since 2018. His favorite exercises are bench presses, squats, and deadlifts.
- Shawn’s favorite snack is almonds.
- He had lung surgery in 2014 due to experiencing a collapsed lung after a run. He had to stay in the hospital for over ten days and the recovery time was six to eight months.
- When he was recovering from the collapsed lung, Shawn spent a lot of the time on the internet researching the history of hip-hop.
- During his final semester in high school, Shawn wrote a paper about the track ‘Watch the World Burn’ from The Dark Knight soundtrack, composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard.