Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya who is better called Ashanti, is an incredibly well-known American actress and singer. She's an actress and singer who hails from her native United States. Ashanti began her career in the teen years, and was eventually signed to Murder Inc. Records by 2002. The same year, she was featured in the Fat Joe's What's Luv? Ja Rule's song, Always on Time and Fat Joe's What's Luv? With Foolish and What's Luv being at number one and her first number one hit, she was the only woman to record two songs that were in the Billboard Hot 100 chart top Ten from the United States. second place. Right here, you can help her celebrate this special day. Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, also known as Ashanti was born in Glen Cove New York on October 13 1980. Tina Douglas, her mother, is a retired teacher of dance. Ken-Kaide Douglas is her father. Kenashia Shia is her younger sister. Douglas is named Ashanti Douglas to Ghana after she was a part of the Ashanti Empire. Women had enormous power and Douglas wanted Ashantis emulated that. James' grandfather worked for Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil right activist during the 1960s. Her mother discovered her talent after listening to her singing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti was a child actor on Spike Lee's Malcolm X and Ted Demme's Who's the Man? Additionally, Ashanti was featured in some music videos like 8-Off Ghettogirl as well as K.R.S. Act One MC's They Don't Even Know. Ashanti was sought out and signed by several record labels, among them Bad Boy. She also featured in several cameos on music videos. But she did perform in and around New York and began hanging around at The Murder Inc. recording studio hoping to get a major break. Ashanti performed as the vocalist backing 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" as well as Fat Joe's What's Luv! Her debut single Foolish includes a snippet of DeBarge's 1983 song Stay With Me. Ashanti's self-titled first album was released in 2002 on Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. record label. The Declaration the fourth studio album, was launched on June 3, 2008. Hey Baby was released for radio and on digital platforms on the 16th of October, 2009. The actress also appeared in the films Christmas in the City, Army Wives and Latasha Monteclair. Aitch sampled Rock wit U in his Baby 10th March 2022.