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With actress and choreographer Debbie Allen at the helm, Ashanti also performed in the Disney TV film Polly alongside stars Keshia Knight Pulliam and Phylicia Rashad.Īshanti displayed a knack for singing when she was six by singing in a gospel choir. She also performed at the 1994 Caribbean Awards and dancing with Judith Jamison of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company.
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She danced with the Senior Pro Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, the Apollo Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Black Spectrum Theater. Ashanti went to Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center where she studied different dance styles including tap, jazz, ballet, African, modern and hip hop. Growing up, Ashanti took dance lessons and joined the church choir. Her grandfather, James, was a civil rights activist who associated with Martin Luther King, Jr. In this tribe, the women are in control and that's the kind of strong and confident woman Ashant's mother wanted her daughter to be. Her mother named her after the Ashanti tribe in Ghana. She inherited a zest for music from her mother Tina, a former dance teacher, and her father Ken-Kaide, a former singer. In 2002, she was also acclaimed as the "Princess of Hip Hop and R&B." As of 2007 Ashanti has sold more than 7 million albums in the U.S., and more than 12 million worldwide.Īshanti was born on October 13, 1980, in Glen Cove, New York. Ironically, Ashanti wrote and sang background on the song " Ain't It Funny" 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). She broke records again by having three Top Ten songs ( Foolish, What's Luv, & Always on Time (with Ja Rule)) on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same week. 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 is most famous for her eponymous debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song " Foolish", and sold 503,000 copies (Gold) in its first week on release in the USA in April 2002, a record breaking feat. Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born Octoin Glen Cove, New York), professionally known as Ashanti, is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, and fashion designer who rose to fame in the early 2000s.
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