Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya, also known by the name Ashanti was born on 13 October 1981 in Glen Cove New York United States. Ashanti is a United States singer, songwriter, and actor. Ashanti began her career when she was a teenager and was eventually signed to Murder Inc. Records by 2002. Ashanti was featured in the Fat Joe's What's Luv? song that same year. song and Ja Rule's Always On Time track. Both of them became massive hits. With Foolish and The What's Luv being at number one and her first number one hit, she was the only woman to record two songs in the Billboard Hot 100 chart top Ten of the United States. at number two. We will help you celebrate Ashanti's birthday at this site. Ashanti Shequoiya Doug, popularly referred to in the media as Ashanti was born in Glen Cove New York on the 13th of October, 1980. Tina Douglas was her mother and Ken Kaide Thomas Douglas had earlier performed as a vocalist. Kenashia Shia is her youngest sibling. Douglas is named Ashanti Douglas to Ghana in honor of the Ashanti Empire. Women had great power there and Douglas wanted Ashantis emulated that. James, Ashanti's grandfather has been a prominent civil rights advocate with Martin Luther King Jr. back in 1960s. The mother of Ashanti discovered her talents after hearing her singing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti was an actor in Spike Lee's Malcolm X in 1992 as well as Ted Demme's Who's the Man? Also, she had appearances in music videos, including K.R.S.-Act One's MC's Like They Don't Know and 8-Off's Ghetto Girl. After being approached by several record labels including Bad Boy and Jive Ashanti was unable to make it as a singer. Even though she was not getting any major breaks however, she continued to play in New York. Ashanti was originally featured in the song of Big Pun's How We Roll as a backing singer. She also appeared in the Fat Joe song "What's Luv?" Ja Rule's Always on Time and Fat Joe's There is Love. The track she used for her debut single Foolish was taken from DeBarge's with Me which was released in 1983. Ashanti has released her debut album, which was titled "Ashanti", in 2002 under Irv Getti's Murder Inc. Record Label. The Declaration was the fourth Ashanti studio release, which was released on June 3, 2008. Hey Baby, After the Club (released on radio as well as digital formats) was released on October 16, 2008. She has acted in the movies Christmas in the City as well as Army Wives. Aitch used her Rock wit U sample in Baby on the 10th of March 2022.