Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya, who was born Douglas, is popularly known Ashanti. Ashanti was birthed October 13 1980, on the shores of Glen Cove New York United States. She is a US singer as well as songwriter. Ashanti started her career in the teen years, and was eventually signed to Murder Inc. Records by 2002. The same year, she was featured on Fat Joe's What's Luv? song and Ja Rule's Always on Time track. Both of them became massive hits. In the year she debuted her debut single the single, What's Luv, at number two at the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and Foolish at #1 featuring Foolish being her first single, she was the only female artist to accomplish this feat. She became the first female artist to hold the highest two positions on the American Billboard Hot 100, with Foolish at number one and the other being What's Loving? Let's celebrate the special occasion by celebrating it together. Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, also known in the media as Ashanti was born in Glen Cove New York on October 13, 1980. Tina Douglas is the mother of Ashanti. Ken Kaide Douglas serves as the her father. She is the eldest and she has a Kenashia Shia who's her younger sister. Douglas is named Ashanti Douglas in Ghana after the Ashanti Empire. The women had immense power in the Ashanti Empire and Douglas would like Ashantis to emulate that. James's grandfather was a part of Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil right activist during the 1960s. The mother of Ashanti's discovered her daughter's talents as she listened to her sing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti appeared as a child extra on Spike Lee's Malcolm X in 1992 and Ted Demme's Who's the Man? She also appeared in a variety of music videos, like K.R.S. Act One's MCs Don't They Know or Eight-Off Ghetto Girls. After being courted for years by various record companies including Bad Boy, Jive and others, Ashanti was still struggling as singer. In the midst of this, she played at New York. At the Murder Inc. Studio she hung out hoping to score an opportunity to break through. Ashanti was the backing vocalist to Big Pun's We Roll. Ashanti was also on Fat Joe's track What's Luv? She was also on Fat Joe's What's Luv? She sampled DeBarge's 1983 single Stay with Me for her first single Foolish. Her self-titled album first released in 2002 through Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. record label. The Declaration The fourth studio album, was released on 3 June 2008. Hey Baby After the Club came out on October 16 to digital and radio outlets. She appeared in the Christmas in the City film and also played Latasha on Army Wives. Aitch was a sampler of Rock wit U in his Baby 10th March 2022.