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Shontelle INTERVIEW 44 lime January - March 2009 ILLUSTRATION: Kathy Wyat The latest sensation to emerge out of Barbados, Shontelle, is making her mark on the international music scene. The 23- year-old is blazing up the music charts with her catchy tune T- shirt, the first single from her recently-released debut album Shontelligence, which continues to zoom up the Billboard Pop 100 Airplay chart. Within a month of its release, T- shirt was being played by over 150 mainstream Top 40 and rhythmic- crossover radio stations across America. In addition, the track's video has drawn well over a million audio streams on Shontelle's MySpace page and a similar number of video hits on YouTube. There is no doubt, Shontelle has arrived on the world stage. She found time in her busy schedule to talk to Anmarie Blake for LiME… meeting ll