Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya, also known in the media as Ashanti was born on the 13th of October 1981 in Glen Cove New York United States. She is a popular American musician, singer and actress. Ashanti began her professional career as an teen, and was ultimately signed to Murder Inc. Records by 2002. She appeared in fat Joe's What's Luv? song that was released the following year. She was also featured on Fat Joe's song What's the Luv? Her tracks Foolish (number 1) and What's Luv! She became the first female artist who held both top two spots on The Billboard Hot 100 list in the United States With Foolish as number one and What's Love? You can celebrate Ashanti's special day by visiting her website. Ashanti Shequoiya Doug, popularly referred to as Ashanti was born in Glen Cove New York on October 13 1980. Tina Douglas her mother is a former dance teacher and Ken-Kaide Thomas Doug, the father of Ashanti is a former vocalist. Kenashia Schia is Douglas's younger sister is older. Douglas named Ashanti Shia Douglas in honor of the Ashanti Empire of Ghana where women were influential and powerful. Douglas hoped Ashanti would emulate this model. James her father was a prominent civil rights activist who was a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. Her mother was able to discover Ashanti's talents by overhearing her singing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti acted as a child in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992) as well as Ted Demme's Who's the Man? She also had a few cameos in music videos including K.R.S.-Act One's MC's Don't Know and 8-Off's Ghetto Girl. After being approached by record labels such as Bad Boy and Jive, Ashanti found it difficult to establish herself as a singer who was successful. Her performances continued in New York, and spent in the Murder Inc. studios hoping for a breakthrough. Ashanti began her career as a backing vocalist of Big Pun on the song "How We Roll". Also, she was on the Fat Joe's song What's Luv? Ja Rule's "Always on Time" and Fat Joe's "What's Luv?" were also featured. In her debut song Foolish The song is a cover of DeBarge's Me which was released in 1983 is sampled. Ashanti's first self-titled album, released on Irv's Murder Inc. in 2002 was Ashanti. The Declaration fourth studio album, was launched on June 3, 2008. Hey Baby (After The Club) reached radio stations and digital platforms on 16 October. In addition, she appeared in the film Christmas in the City, Army Wives and Latasha Monteclair. The song she sang Rock wit U was sampled by British rapper Aitch for his hit song Baby in March 10, 2022.