Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya, who was born Douglas, is well-known as Ashanti. Ashanti was birthed 13 October 1980, at Glen Cove New York United States. She is an American singer and songwriter. Ashanti was first discovered when she was an 18-year-old and was became signed to Murder Inc. Records in 2002. That same year she appeared on Fat Joe's What's Luv? song and Ja Rule's Always on Time track both of which turned into huge smashes. In the case of Foolish and the track What's Luv as the top two songs and her first number one hit, she was the only woman to have two songs that were in the Billboard Hot 100 chart top ten in the United States. second place. The Ashanti family can commemorate her special day right here. Ashanti Shequoiya, more popularly known by her nickname Ashanti, is a New Yorker born in Glen Cove, New York on the 13th of the 13th of October in 1980. Tina Douglas' mother was an instructor in dance and Ken-Kaide Douglas, the parent of Ashanti Douglas, had been a vocalist. The oldest of the three is the Kenashia Shia Douglas who is younger sister. Douglas was given the name Ashanti in honor of the Ashanti Empire where women enjoyed the power and influence. Douglas hoped Ashanti would emulate the Ashanti Empire. James the Ashanti's great-grandfather was a civil rights activist alongside Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. The mother of Ashanti discovered her talents after hearing her singing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti was in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992) and 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 don't even know as well as the 8-Off's Ghetto Girl. After being approached by several record labels like Bad Boy or Jive, Ashanti struggled to find success being an artist. However, she continued to play throughout New York and began hanging around the Murder Inc. recording studio hoping to get a major break. Ashanti was originally a backup vocalist on Big Pun's song, How We Roll. She also appeared on Fat Joe's track What's Luv? as well as Ja Rule's Never On Time. Ashanti sampled the track of 1983 by DeBarge Stay With Me for her first single Foolish. Ashanti's first self-titled album that was released on the album of Irv's Murder Inc. in 2002 was Ashanti. The Declaration was her fourth studio album was released in June 2008 On the 16th of October Hey Baby (After the Club) was made available to stations and digital platforms. She was Latasha in Army Wives and starred in the film Christmas in the City. Aitch was one of the British artist, took a sample of her song Rock wit U for Baby on 10 March 2022.