Ashanti

Ashanti Douglas, also known as Ashanti was born in Glen Cove New York United States 13 October 1980. She is a popular American musician, singer and actor. Ashanti was first discovered when she was an untrained teenager, and later joined Murder Inc. Records in 2002. In the same year, she made an appearance with the Fat Joe's What's Luv? She was also featured on the song by Fat Joe, What's the Luv? She became the first female artist to hold the top two spots on the Billboard Hot 100 list in the United States with Foolish at number one and The song What's Luv? She became the first female artist to have both of the top two spots in the The Billboard Hot 100 list in the United States including Foolish at number one and What's Love? The Ashanti family can commemorate her special day right here. Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, better known as Ashanti, was born on October 13 the 13th of October, 1980 in Glen Cove New York. Tina Douglas' mother was teacher of dance, and Ken-Kaide Douglas who was the mother of Ashanti Douglas, is also a singer. Kenashia Shia is the younger brother. Douglas named Ashanti Shia Douglas following the Ashanti Empire of Ghana, where women were influential and powerful. Douglas hoped Ashanti would emulate this model. James her grandfather was a leader in civil rights who was a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. Her mother was able to discover Ashanti's talents through her listening to her sing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti played a role as a young girl on 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 as well as the 8-Off's Ghetto Girl. After getting approached by record labels like Bad Boy and Jive, Ashanti found it difficult to be a popular singer. The singer continued to tour on stage in New York, and spent her time in Murder Inc. studios hoping to land a major break. Ashanti began her career as the background singer for Big Pun on the song "How We Roll". Ashanti was also a vocalist on Fat Joe's song What's Luv? She also appeared on Fat Joe's What's Luv? The track she used for the debut single Foolish is from DeBarge's Stay with Me the track from 1983. Her first self-titled album released on The album by Irv's Murder Inc. in 2002 was Ashanti. The Declaration the fourth studio album, was launched on June 3, 2008. Hey Baby After the Club was released on October 16, 2008 to radio and digital stores. In addition, she appeared in the movies Christmas in the City, Army Wives and Latasha Monteclair. The song she sang Rock wit U was sampled by British singer Aitch for his hit song Baby on the 10th of March 2022.