Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas popularly known Ashanti. Ashanti was birthed October 13 1980, on the shores of Glen Cove New York United States. She's an actress and singer who hails from her native United States. Ashanti began her career when she was a teenager then was eventually signed to Murder Inc. Records by 2002. The same year she also made an appearance in Fat Joe's What's Luv? Ja Rule's song, Always on Time as well as Fat Joe's What's Luv? The moment she dropped her single, What's Luv, at number two at the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and Foolish at number one and Foolish being her first single, she was the only female artist to accomplish this feat. The song What's Luv! Let's celebrate the special occasion by celebrating it together. Ashanti Shequoiya is also known as Ashanti and was born on thirteenth October 1980 in Glen Cove New York. Tina Douglas her mother is a former dance teacher and Ken-Kaide Thomas Douglas is her father. is a singer from the past. The Kenashia Shia family is their youngest sibling. Douglas chose the name Ashanti in honor of the Ashanti Empire in which women had control and power. Douglas hoped Ashanti would be like this. James' grandfather worked for Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights activist in the 1960s. Ashanti's mother stumbled upon her talent after listening to her singing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti performed as an extra on Spike Lee's Malcolm X in 1992 as well as Ted Demme's Who's the Man? Ashanti also appeared in several music videos. These include K.R.S. - Act One's "MC's are like they don't understand" along with 8-Off Ghetto girl. Ashanti was sought out and signed by various record labels, including Bad Boy. She also appeared in a couple of music videos. However, she continued to perform in and around New York and began hanging in the Murder Inc. recording studio in hopes of a big break. Ashanti initially appeared as a background vocalist in the music video of Big Pun on the song "How We Roll". Her other appearances include Fat Joe's"What's Luv?" and Ja Rule's Always On Time. It's her debut single Foolish features a sample taken from DeBarge's song Stay With Me. Ashanti's first self-titled album was released by The album by Irv's Murder Inc. in 2002 was Ashanti. The Declaration, her fourth studio album, came out in June 2008. Hey Baby, After the Club (released via the radio and on digital) came out October 16 in 2008. The actress has appeared in the films Christmas in the City as in Army Wives. Her track Rock wit U was sampled by British artist Aitch to record his song Baby on March 10 2022.