Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya, who was born Douglas, is well-known as Ashanti. Ashanti was birthed on the 13th of October, 1980 on the shores of Glen Cove New York United States. She is a singer and actress who hails from in the United States. Ashanti began her professional career in the teen years, she was signed by Murder Inc. Records by 2002. The same year, she was featured on The Fat Joe's What's Luv? Also, she was featured on Fat Joe's song What's Luv?! and Ja Rules' track Always In Time, both of which have been hugely successful. When she had Foolish and the track What's Luv at Number One, she became the first woman to record two songs in the Billboard Hot 100 chart top ten of the United States. What's Luv? Right here, you can help her celebrate this special day. Ashanti Shequoiya was popularly called Ashanti and was born on the 13th of October, 1980 located in Glen Cove New York. Tina Douglas' mother was teacher of dance, and Ken-Kaide Douglas, who was the parent of Ashanti Douglas, was a vocalist. Kenashia Shia is her eldest sibling. Douglas was named Ashanti Shia Douglas after her mother, who was from the Ashanti Empire of Ghana in which women were influential and powerful. Douglas wanted Ashantis to follow this example. James, Ashanti's grandfather was a civil rights activist along with Martin Luther King Jr. back in 1960s. Ashanti was found by her mother after she heard Ashanti performing Mary J. Blige s song Reminisce. Ashanti appeared in the film of Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992) as well as Ted Demme's Who's the Man? as a young extra. Also, she had appearances in music videos, including K.R.S.-Act One's MC's Like They don't know and the 8-Off's Ghetto Girl. After being approached by several record labels like Bad Boy and Jive Ashanti was unable to make it as a singer. The singer continued to tour throughout New York, and she started to visit at the Murder Inc. studios hoping to get a break. Ashanti was the back vocalist for Big Pun's We Roll. Ashanti was also on Fat Joe's track"What's Luv?" as well as Ja Rule's Never On Time. Ashanti's debut single Foolish contains a cover of the 1983 hit song from DeBarge, with Me. Her debut self-titled album was released by Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. on the label in 2002. The Declaration, her fourth studio album, was released in June 2008 Hey Baby was released for radio and on digital platforms on October 16, 2009. She has acted in the films Christmas in the City as and Army Wives. Aitch samples the Rock wit U song for Baby, March 10, 2022.