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Ashanti
Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13, 1980) is an American
singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, model, and
fashion designer who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Ashanti is
most famous for her eponymous Grammy Award-winning debut album
Ashanti which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold
503,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S. in April
2002. In the same week, she became the first female performer to
simultaneously hold the top two places on the Billboard Hot 100
singles chart with "Foolish", and "What's Luv"
(with Fat Joe). She broke records again by having three Top Ten
songs Foolish, What's Luv, and Always on Time, with Ja Rule, on
the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same week, being the first
female to accomplish this feat and being second only to The
Beatles. Ashanti also wrote and sang background on the song
"Ain't It Funny" (Murder Remix) sung by Jennifer Lopez
which was also in the top 10 charts at the same time as
"Foolish", "Always on Time" (with Ja Rule),
and "What's Luv" (with Fat Joe). In 2002, she was
acclaimed as the "Princess of Hip Hop and R&B." and
by 2007, Ashanti had sold more than 8 million albums in the U.S.,
and more than 15 million records worldwide. Her fourth studio
album entitled The Declaration 2008 ... more |
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