Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya, who was born Douglas, is famously known as Ashanti. Ashanti was birthed on the 13th of October, 1980 on the shores of Glen Cove New York United States. She is a musician, singer and actress who hails from the United States. Ashanti began her professional career when she was a teenager and was eventually signed to Murder Inc. Records by 2002. The same year, she was featured as a guest on the Fat Joe's What's Luv? The song "What's love?" by Fat Joe as well as Ja Rule's song "Always on Time were both huge hits. First female artist to make it into the top two positions within the United States, with Foolish on number one and What's Luv? She became the first female artist holding both the highest two positions on the Billboard Hot 100 in America With Foolish as number one, and then What's Love? Here, we will celebrate with you her special birthday. Ashanti Shequoiya was popularly called Ashanti and she was born thirteenth October 1980 at Glen Cove New York. Tina Douglas, her mother was a former dance instructor. Ken-Kaide Douglas is her father. Kenashia Schia Douglas is her younger sister, is older. Douglas has named her in honour of the Ashanti Empire which was located in Ghana where women had power as well as influence. Douglas wanted Ashanti to follow the same model. James her grandfather was a prominent civil rights activist who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. The mother of Ashanti discovered her talent after listening to her sing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti was an actor in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (released in 1992) and Ted Demme's Who's the Man? She also appeared in various music videos including K.R.S. Act One's MCs Don't They Know and Eight-Off Ghetto Girls. Her career as a musician was hampered because she was unable to find the heights she desired after being contacted by record companies like Bad Boy and Jive. However, she continued to play throughout New York and began hanging around The Murder Inc. recording studio in hopes of a big break. Ashanti appeared originally on Big Pun's track"How We Roll, as a back vocalist. Ashanti sang on the track of Fat Joe, What's Luv? Ja Rule's Always On Time as well as Fat Joe's There is Love. She sampled DeBarge's 1983 single Stay With Me on her debut single Foolish. Ashanti's first self-titled album that was released on Irv's Murder Inc. in 2002 was Ashanti. The Declaration, Ashanti's fourth studio album, was released on June 3, 2008. Hey Baby (After The Club) came out on radio stations and digital platforms on 16 October. She also starred in the films Christmas in the City, Army Wives and Latasha Monteclair. The song she sang Rock wit U was sampled by British artist Aitch for his song Baby on the 10th of March 2022.