Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya, who was born Douglas, is well-known as Ashanti. Ashanti was birthed October 13 1980, on the shores of Glen Cove New York United States. She is a singer, songwriter from America and actress. Ashanti, a teenage singer-songwriter and actress in the US, was signed by Murder Inc. Records to release her debut album in 2002. In the same year, she made an appearance in Fat Joe's What's Luv? song and Ja Rule's Always on Time track. Both of them became massive hits. With Foolish and the track What's Luv at Number One and her first number one hit, she was the only female artist to be featured in two tracks in the Billboard Hot 100 chart top 10 from the United States. She became the first female artist to hold both of the Top two spots on the Billboard Hot 100 in America and with the number one spot held by Foolish. one, and then What's Love? Right here, you can support her on this important day. Ashanti Shequoiya Doug, also known as Ashanti was born on 13 October the 13th of October, 1980 in Glen Cove New York. Tina Douglas' mother was an instructor in dance and Ken-Kaide Douglas, who was the mother of the Ashanti Douglas had been a vocalist. Kenashia Shai Douglas is her sibling. She is the oldest of them all. Douglas chose the name Ashanti Shia Douglas to honor the Ashanti Empire from Ghana where women ruled the roost and were highly influential. Douglas wanted Ashantis to adopt this model. James Her grandfather was a prominent civil rights leader during the 1960s, who was alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Ashanti was caught by her mom when she heard Ashanti sing Mary J. Blige s song Reminisce. Ashanti was an actor in Spike Lee's Malcolm X in 1992, and Ted Demme's Who's the Man? There were also a couple of appearances in music videos, including K.R.S.-Act One's MC's don't even know as well as the 8-Off's Ghetto Girl. After being courted by various record labels like Bad Boy and Jive Ashanti was unable to make it as a vocalist. Despite this she continued to perform in and around New York and began hanging around at The Murder Inc. recording studio looking for a huge break. Ashanti was first seen in the role of background vocalist in the music video of Big Pun on the song "How We Roll". Ashanti also sang on Fat Joe's song"What's Luv?" Ja Rule's "Always on Time" and Fat Joe's What's Luv! The debut single Foolish features a sample of the song by DeBarge from 1983, Stay with Me. Ashanti made her debut album, self-titled album in 2002 on Irv Goti's Murder Inc. label. The Declaration her fourth studio album was released on June 3 2008. Hey Baby, After the Club (released via radio and digital format) came out October 16 in 2008. The singer was on the Christmas in the City film as Latasha in Army Wives. Aitch has sampled Rock wit U in his Baby 10th March 2022 song.