Ashanti

Ashanti Douglas is also known as Ashanti was born in Glen Cove New York United States on 13 October 1980. She is a musician, singer and actress born in her native United States. Ashanti was a star when she was a teenager, and was later signed to Murder Inc. Records by 2002. At the time she appeared on the Fat Joe's What's Luv? The singer also appeared in Fat Joe's track"What's the Luv?" Her first appearance as a female artist to be in the highest two positions on the Billboard Hot 100 list in the United States with Foolish at number one and The song What's Luv? What's Luv? The second spot is ours. her special day right here. Ashanti Douglas, also known as Ashanti as she's more popularly known, was born in Glen Cove New York in the year 1980. Tina Douglas, her mother is a retired dance instructor. Ken-Kaide Douglas is her father. The oldest of the three is Kenashia Shia Douglas is her older sister. Douglas chose the name Ashanti in honor of Ghana's Ashanti Empire, where women were in charge and held power and influence. Douglas wanted Ashantis to follow this paradigm. James her father was a prominent civil rights activist who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. The mother of Ashanti's discovered her talent by overhearing 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? In addition, she appeared in various music videos such as K.R.S. Act One's MCs Don't They're Not a Good Idea or the 8-Off Ghetto Girls. After being wooed by a variety of record labels including Bad Boy and Jive Ashanti tried to get noticed as a singer. In spite of this the fact that she was still performing throughout New York. Then she started hanging out at the Murder Inc. Studio hoping for a gig. Ashanti began her career as the background singer for Big Pun on the song "How We Roll". She also appeared on the Fat Joe's song"What's Luv?" Ja Rule's "Always on Time" and Fat Joe's "What's Luv?" were also featured. The song sample she uses in the debut single Foolish originates from the album of DeBarge, Stay with Me song from 1983. Ashanti made her debut album, self-titled album in 2002. The album was via Irv Goti's Murder Inc. label. The Declaration fourth studio album out on June 3rd, 2008. The 16th of October Hey Baby (After the Club) was made available to radio stations as well as digital channels. She also starred in the film Christmas in the City, Army Wives and Latasha Monteclair. Aitch sampled Rock wit U in his Baby song on March 10, 2022 song.