Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya Doug, better known in the media as Ashanti was born October 13 1979 in Glen Cove New York United States. She is an actress and a singer of the United States. Ashanti started her career as a teenager, and was eventually signed to Murder Inc. Records by 2002. In the same year, she made an appearance in Fat Joe's What's Luv? song as well as Ja Rule's Always On Time track, both of which were huge hits. She became the first female artist to hold the first and second spots on the Billboard Hot 100 list in the United States with Foolish at the top spot and the track What's Luv? What's Luv? At number two, we will assist you in celebrating the day of her birth right here. Ashanti Douglas, also known as Ashanti for short, as she's often referred to was born in Glen Cove New York in the year 1980. Tina Douglas' mother was an instructor in dance and Ken-Kaide Douglas who was the dad of the Ashanti Douglas is also a vocalist. Kenashia Schia is Douglas's younger sister, is older. Douglas has named Ashanti Shia Douglas following the Ashanti Empire from Ghana in which women were powerful and influential. Douglas hoped Ashanti would take inspiration from this example. James her grandfather was a prominent civil rights activist that worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. The mother of Ashanti's discovered her talent by overhearing her singing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti appeared as a child extra in Spike Lee's Malcolm X from 1992 and Ted Demme's Who's the Man? She also appeared in numerous music videos including K.R.S. Act One's MCs Don't You Know, or Eight-Off Ghetto Girls. Ashanti was sought out and signed by several record labels, among them Bad Boy. She also had a few cameos in music videos. Her performances continued in New York, and spent some time at Murder Inc. studios hoping to get a break. Ashanti first appeared on the track of Big Pun's We Roll as a backing singer. She was also featured on Fat Joe's"What's Luv?" Ja Rule's "Always on Time" as well as Fat Joe's "What's Luv?" were also featured. In her debut song Foolish and Foolish, the DeBarge song Stay with Me from 1983 is sampled. The first album of her own, which was released on Irv's Murder Inc. in 2002 was Ashanti. The Declaration her fourth studio album was released on June 3 2008. On the 16th October Hey Baby (After the Club) was made available to radio stations as well as digital channels. The film in which she starred was Christmas in the City and as Latasha the character Montclair from Army Wives. Her track Rock wit U was sampled by British musician Aitch to accompany his track Baby on 10 March 2022.