Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya, who was born Douglas, is well-known as Ashanti. Ashanti was birthed 13 October 1980, at Glen Cove New York United States. She is a singer and actress of her native United States. Ashanti was discovered as an teen and became signed to Murder Inc. Records in 2002. The same year, she was featured in The Fat Joe's What's Luv? The Fat Joe's What's Luv and Foolish? With Foolish and the track What's Luv as the top two songs 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 in the United States. The track What's Luv! The second spot is ours. Ashanti's birthday at this site. Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, better called Ashanti was born on October 13, 1980 in Glen Cove New York. Tina Douglas' mother was teacher of dance, as was Ken-Kaide Douglas. The mother of the Ashanti Douglas, was a singer. The younger Kenashia is Tia Douglas. Douglas was named Ashanti Shia Douglas to honor her mother, who was from the Ashanti Empire from Ghana in which women were powerful and influential. Douglas wanted Ashantis to follow this example. James, Ashanti's grandfather has been a prominent civil rights advocate with Martin Luther King Jr. back in 1960s. Ashanti's mum discovered Ashanti's talent when she heard her sing Mary J. Blige's "Reminisce.. Ashanti appeared on Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992) and Ted Demme's Who's the Man? as a young extra. There were a few appearances by her included music videos like K.R.S. Act One's MC's Like They Do Not Know and 8 Off's Ghetto Woman. After being courted by various record labels including Bad Boy and Jive Ashanti had a difficult time gaining success as a vocalist. In this midst, Ashanti was a performer at New York. At the Murder Inc. Studio she hung out hoping to score an opportunity to break through. Ashanti was originally a backup singer on the track of Big Pun, How We Roll. Ashanti was also on Fat Joe's track What's Luv? and Ja Rule's Never On Time. In her debut song Foolish, DeBarge's Stay With Me from 1983 is sampled. The self-titled debut album of Ashanti was released in 2002 on Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. record label. The Declaration was Ashanti's fourth studio release, made available on the 3rd of June in 2008. Hey Baby was released for the radio and online on the 16th of October, 2009. The singer played Latasha in Army Wives and starred in the movie Christmas in the City. Aitch used the Rock wit U sample in Baby on the 10th of March in 2022.