Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya, also known for her stage name Ashanti was born October 13 the 13th of October, 1980 at Glen Cove New York United States. She is an actress and a performer of the United States. Ashanti was a teenager singer-songwriter and actress from the US is signed with Murder Inc. Records to record her in 2002. She was featured on the Fat Joe's What's Luv? song that same year. The singer also appeared on the song by Fat Joe,"What's Luv?" Through Foolish and the track What's Luv in the Top Ten, she became the first woman to have two songs included in the Billboard Hot 100 chart top ten of the United States. What's Luv? The Ashanti family can commemorate her special day here. Ashanti Douglas also known as Ashanti for short, as she's popularly known, was born in Glen Cove New York in 1980. Tina Douglas her mother is an instructor in dance and Ken-Kaide Thomas Douglas is her father. was a former singer. She is the oldest and she has a Kenashia Shia who's her younger sister. Douglas has named her in honour of the Ashanti Empire located in Ghana where women had power and influence and Douglas desired Ashanti to emulate that paradigm. James her grandfather was a leader in civil rights who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. Her mother was impressed by Ashanti's talents after hearing her sing Mary J. Blige Reminisce. Ashanti appeared as a child actor in Spike Lee's Malcolm X from 1992 and Ted Demme's Who's the Man? She also had a few appearances in music videos, including K.R.S.-Act One's MC's Like They Don't Know as well as 8-Off's Ghetto Girl. After being approached by several record labels like Bad Boy and Jive Ashanti tried to get noticed in her career as a performer. Her performances continued at New York, and spent time at Murder Inc. studios hoping for a breakthrough. Ashanti was originally featured in the song of Big Pun's How We Roll as a backing vocalist. She also appeared in Fat Joe's "What's Luv?" as well as Ja Rule's Always On Time. The first single from Ashanti, Foolish the song by DeBarge's Me of 1983 is used as a sample. Ashanti made her debut album, self-titled album in 2002. The album was via Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. label. The Declaration the fourth studio album, was released on June 3, 2008. Hey Baby After the Club came out on October 16 to both radio and digital platforms. She starred in the film Christmas in the City and appeared as Latasha the character Montclair from Army Wives. Her song Rock wit U was sampled by British artist Aitch for his hit song Baby on 10 March 2022.