Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya was Douglas is famously known as Ashanti. Ashanti was birthed October 13 1980, in Glen Cove New York United States. She is a songwriter, singer and actress from the United States. Ashanti's talent was first discovered in her teens. The singer signed with Murder Inc. Records, in 2002. The same year, she was featured in Fat Joe's What's Luv? Ja Rule's track, Always On Time and Fat Joe's What's luv? With Foolish and What's Luv as the top two songs and her first number one hit, she was the only woman to record two songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart top Ten of the United States. What's Luv? Here, we will celebrate with you her special birthday. Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, better known as Ashanti was born on 13 October on the 13th of October at Glen Cove New York. Tina Douglas is the mother of Ashanti, and Ken Kaide Douglas serves as the her father. She is the eldest and Kenashia Shia Douglas is her older sister. Douglas has named her in honour of her father, who was a member of the Ashanti Empire which was located in Ghana where women held power as well as influence. Douglas would like Ashanti to model that same pattern. James, Ashanti's grandfather was a civil rights activist alongside Martin Luther King Jr. back in 1960s. Ashanti was discovered by her mother when she saw Ashanti performing Mary J. Blige s song Reminisce. Ashanti was an actor in Spike Lee's Malcolm X in 1992 and Ted Demme's Who's the Man? Some of her appearances were in music video clips like K.R.S. Act One's MC's"Like They're Not Known" and 8 Off's Ghetto Woman. After being approached by several label owners such as Bad Boy or Jive, Ashanti struggled to find success being an artist. However, she continued to sing in and around New York and began hanging around at the Murder Inc. recording studio hoping to get a major break. Ashanti was the backing vocalist to Big Pun's We Roll. She also appeared on the single by Fat Joe,"What's Luv?" and Ja Rule's Never On Time. Her debut single Foolish includes a sample of DeBarge's song Stay With Me. The self-titled debut album of Ashanti was released in 2002 through Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. record label. The Declaration was Ashanti's fourth studio album that was released on 3 June 2008. Hey Baby After the Club came out on October 16 for radio and digital outlets. The actress has appeared in the films Christmas in the City as and Army Wives. The song she sang Rock wit U was sampled by British artist Aitch to record his song Baby in March 10, 2022.