Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya, also known as Ashanti was born on 13 October 1981 in Glen Cove New York United States. She is a musician, singer and actress from her native United States. Ashanti was discovered as an teen and became signed to Murder Inc. Records in 2002. In the same year, she made an appearance on the Fat Joe's What's Luv? Ja Rule's single, Always On Time as well as Fat Joe's What's Luv? Her songs Foolish (number one) and the track What's Luv! at number two. We will be celebrating with you the day of her birthday. Ashanti Shequoiya is also known as Ashanti and she was born October 13th 1980, in Glen Cove New York. Tina Douglas is the mother of Ashanti, and Ken Kaide Douglas happens to be the the father. Kenashia Schia Douglas, her younger sister, is older. Douglas is named Ashanti Douglas to Ghana in honor of the Ashanti Empire. Women held great power there and Douglas was hoping that Ashantis would follow in the footsteps of those. James, Ashanti's grandfather was a civil rights activist alongside Martin Luther King Jr. In the 60s. Her mother discovered her talents after hearing her sing Mary J. Blige's Reminisce. Ashanti appeared as an extra for a child on Spike Lee's Malcolm X (released in 1992) and Ted Demme's Who's the Man? Ashanti also appeared in a few music videos, such as K.R.S. - Act One's "MC's like They don't know" and Eight-Off Ghetto girl. After having been courted for a long time by various record companies, including Bad Boy, Jive and others Ashanti still struggled as a vocalist. Ashanti continued to sing in New York, and she started to visit at the Murder Inc. studios hoping for a breakthrough. Ashanti originally appeared in the song of Big Pun's How We Roll as a backing vocalist. She was also featured on Fat Joe's track What's Luv? Ja Rule's always punctual and Fat Jojo's What's Luv? also featured her. The debut single Foolish includes a sample of the song by DeBarge called Stay With Me. Her self-titled album first released in 2002 on Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. record label. The Declaration is her fourth studio album, was released in June 2008 Hey Baby, After the Club (released on radio and digital formats) came out October 16 in 2008. She also starred in the films Christmas in the City, Army Wives and Latasha Monteclair. Aitch, an British artist, took a sample of her song Rock wit U for Baby on the 10th of March in 2022.