Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, also called Ashanti, was born on the 13th of October, 1980 in Glen Cove New York United States. She is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Ashanti became famous as an teen. In 2002, she signed with Murder Inc. Records. In the same year, she made an appearance on the Fat Joe's What's Luv? Ja Rule's track, Always On Time and Fat Joe's What's Luv? In the case of Foolish and What's Luv being at number one and her first number one hit, she was the only female artist to be featured in two tracks that were in the Billboard Hot 100 chart top 10 of the United States. The song is called What's Luv! You can support her on this important day. Ashanti Shequoiya was popularly called Ashanti and was born on the 13th of October, 1980 at Glen Cove New York. Tina Douglas' mother was a dance instructor and Ken-Kaide Douglas, the father of Ashanti Douglas, had been a vocalist. The oldest of the three is Kenashia Shia Douglas is her older sister. Douglas chose the name Ashanti Shia Douglas after her mother, who was from the Ashanti Empire of Ghana in which women ruled the roost and were highly influential. Douglas wanted Ashantis to take this as a model. James who was Ashanti's father, worked in civil rights along with Martin Luther King Jr. back in 1960s. Ashanti's mother discovered her daughter's talent when she overheard her singing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti appeared on Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992) and Ted Demme's Who's the Man? as an extra in her youth. Additionally, she was featured in a variety of music videos, such as K.R.S. Act One's MCs Don't They Know or Eight-Off Ghetto Girls. Even after she was approached by a number of record labels such as Bad Boy or Jive, Ashanti was not able to make it in the field of music. Amid this struggle, Ashanti played at New York. At the Murder Inc. Studio she was waiting to make the breakthrough. Ashanti performed as the backing vocalist to the Big Pun's How We Roll. Other appearances she has made include The Fat Joe's song"What's Luv?" Ja Rule's Always on Time and Fat Joe's There is Love. Her debut single Foolish includes a snippet of the 1983 hit song from DeBarge, With Me. The first album of her own, released on Irv's Murder Inc. in 2002 was Ashanti. The Declaration is Ashanti's forth studio album. The album was released by Murder Inc. on June 3, 2008. Hey Baby was released for radio and digital on 16 October 2009. She has acted in the movies Christmas in the City as in Army Wives. Her song Rock wit U was sampled by British rapper Aitch to accompany his track Baby in March 10, 2022.