(Screenshot: Zeus/YouTube) Article continues below advertisement ↴ Canadian pop icon Shawn Mendes recently shared his heart and faith journey during a podcast in which he talks about the power of a Maverick City Music song. Mendes was on the podcast called Man Enough when he shared his experience after becoming famous from hit single after hit single. "I had a huge song when I was really young," Mendes says referring to his first single 'Life of the Party.' "Only in the last two years did I realize the power that music is." Mendes was born and raised in Toronto before making it big in the pop world of music in his early teen years.