Ashanti is a Grammy grant winning American artist, lyricist, record maker, model, and entertainer who is most popular for her introduction collection “Ashanti”. Her presentation collection was an enormous achievement and furthermore procured her many honors including a Grammy Award, eight Billboard Music Awards, and two American Music Awards. Ashanti is additionally the main female craftsman to involve the best two situations on the US Billboard Hot 100 graph after Ja Rule’s “Consistently on Time” and Fat Joe’s “What’s Love”, in the two of which she was highlighted craftsman, reached at numbers one and two individually in 2002. Her different collections are “Section II”, “Ashanti’s Christmas”, “Substantial Rose”, “The Declaration”, “The Woman You Love”, and “Braveheart”.
She has shown up in different movies and series including “Disneyland”, “American Dreams”, “Lady and Prejudice”, “Stuck”, “Administration”, “Christmas in the City”, and “Mentor Carter”. She additionally depicted the job of Latasha in the American show TV series “Armed force Wives” in 2013 for 13 scenes.
| Celebrated Name | Ashanti |
|---|---|
| Age | 40 Years |
| Nick Name | Shani |
| Birth Name | Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas i |
| Birth Date | 1980-10-13 |
| Gender | Female |
| Profession | Singer |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Afro-American |
| Place Of Birth | Glen Cove, New York, U.S |
| Birth Nation | America |
| Horoscope | Libra |
| Father | Thomas Douglas |
| Mother | Tina Douglas |
| School | Glen Cove High School |
| Famous For | Being an American singer, songwriter, record producer, model, dancer, and actress. |
| Best Known For | For the commercial success of her studio album, “Chapter II”. |
| Awards | Female Artist of the Year Hot 100 Singles Artist of the Year R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Artist of the Year Best Actress Award |
| Marital Status | Unmarried |
| Sexual Orientation | Straight |
| Source of Wealth | Acting anad singing career |
| Net Worth | $ 18 million |
| Height | 5 ft 3 in or 160 cm |
| Weight | 64 kg or 141 lbs |
| Body Measurement | 34-23-38 inches |
| Body Type | Average |
| Race | black |
Other than on January 22, 2021, Ashanti became triumphant over Keyshia Cole, an American artist musician, entertainer, and TV maker in the Friday night Billboard Verzuz fight. Ashanti won the versus fight with the last score of 12-10-3. Out of which 3 rounds brought about a tie. Albeit the fight was rescheduled, it didn’t influence the quantities of watchers as over 1.1 million watchers were tuned in.
Ashanti is dynamic in the online media stage with around 6 million adherents on her confirmed Instagram account: @ashanti and has around 1.9 million devotees on her checked Twitter account: @ashanti. She likewise has her own youtube channel named “Ashanti” with over 738k endorsers.
Well known as a Grammy grant winning American artist, musician, record maker, model, and entertainer
Known for her presentation collection “Ashanti”
Ashanti was born on October 13, 1980, in Glen Cove, New York, United States. Her original name is Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas. She holds an American ethnicity. Her nationality is African-American while Libra is her zodiac sign.
She was born as the little girl of Tina Douglas(mother) and Ken-Kaide Thomas Douglas(father). Her mom is a previous dance instructor while her dad is a previous vocalist. She has a sister named Kenashia Douglas. Her mom named her after the Ashanti Empire in Ghana where ladies had force and her mom needed Ashanti to follow a similar prudence. Her granddad, James Douglas was a social equality extremist who worked under Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s.
She was brought up in her old neighborhood, New York alongside her sister. Since her adolescence, she was keen on singing. Her mom was the first to perceive her singing potential get-togethers mother saw her singing Mary J Blige’s “Memory” at twelve years old. She likewise started composing melodies while enlisting at Glen Clove High School. Her mom upheld her and caused her to take an interest in various nearby ability shows.
At 12 years old, she made her TV debut by showing up as a youngster extra in Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” and in Ted Demme’s “Who’s The Man?”. She marked her first singing agreement with Jive Records at 14 years old. She left the agreement inside a year. At the point when she was 17, she endorsed with Sony mark Epic Records. However, because of some administration issues, she left the agreement following a year. Afterward, she went to Hampton University in Virginia on a track grant. Notwithstanding, following a year, she dropped from University to seek after her vocation as an artist.
Notwithstanding being sought by a few record marks, she kept singing in and around New York until she met CEO and the prime supporter of Murder Inc, Irv Gotti who offered her to perform with his rap specialists in two part harmonies. She acknowledged the offer.
Ashanti began her expert music profession in the mid 2000s by being a foundation singer on rapper Big Pun’s melody “How We Roll”. The tune was a gigantic achievement and she was valued a ton.
She then, at that point showed up on “The Fast and the Furious” soundtrack in 2001.
The year 2002, became perhaps the most fortunate year after she got highlighted on Ja Rule’s “Consistently on Time” and Fat Joe’s “What’s Love”. She turned into the main female craftsman to possess the best two situations on the U.S. Announcement Hot 100 graph at the same time after the tunes arrived at numbers one and two on the US Billboards Hot 100 separately.
She delivered her presentation single “Absurd” from her introduction collection which additionally turned into a tremendous achievement and diagrammed at tenth situation on US Billboard Hot 100. After which, she turned into the subsequent craftsman (after The Beatles) to have their initial three graph sections in the main ten of the Hot 100.
Around the same time, she made her biggest profession leap forward after she delivered her self-named debut collection “Ashanti” under, Murder Inc. record mark. The collection turned into an immense accomplishment after it sold in excess of 500,000 duplicates in its lady week, which set a Soundscan standard of the greatest sold-out debut collection of a female vocalist.
The collection additionally outlined at one situation on the US Billboard 200. The collection acquired her many honors including a Grammy Award, eight Billboard Music Awards, and two American Music Awards.
Then, at that point, she delivered her second studio collection “Part II” on July 1, 2003, under Murder Inc. record mark. The collection appeared at number one on the Billboard 200.
She delivered her third collection named “Ashanti’s Christmas” in November 2003. The collection contained 10 Christmas tunes.
From that point forward, Ashanti has not thought back in her profession and has delivered three other effective collections “Concrete Rose(2004)”, “The Declaration(2008)”, “The Woman You Love(2011)”, and “Braveheart(2014)”.
She left The Inc. Records in May 2009.
She then, at that point opened her own record name “Composed Entertainment” where she is functioning as the CEO of the name.
She has delivered many hit singles all through her vocation and has teamed up with numerous craftsmen including “Fat Joe”, “The Isley Brothers”, “Ja Rule”, and “R. Kelly”.
As of now, she is caught up with chipping away at her seventh collection.
Other than being an artist, Ashanti is a grounded entertainer.
She has acted in various TV and series including “Disneyland”, “Sabrina: The Teenage Witch”, “American Dreams”, “The Proud Family”, “Remarkable”, and “Tradition”.
In the year 2013, she depicted the job of Latasha in the American show TV series “Armed force Wives” for 13 scenes.
She has additionally shown up in many movies including “Lady and Prejudice”, “The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz”, “John Tucker Must Die”, “Stuck” and “Moms and Daughters”.
As of late on January 22, 2021, Ashanti became successful over Keyshia Cole, an American vocalist musician, entertainer, and TV maker in the Friday night Billboard Verzuz fight.
Ashanti won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album for her collection Ashanti in 2003.
1 Grammy Award
2 ASCAP Pop Music Awards
2 American Music Awards
4 ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Music Awards
8 Billboard Music Awards
1 Breckenridge Festival of Film Award for Best Actress
1 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
2 MOBO Award
Ashanti isn’t hitched and is right now single. Notwithstanding, there were many bits of gossip about her dating Joyner Lucas who is an American rapper, artist lyricist, and entertainer. The bits of gossip began spreading after Ashanti worked together with Joyner for the single, Fall Slowly. Afterward, they affirmed that they were not dating. Already, she dated American Rapper, Nelly from 2003-2014. The couple met each other without precedent for a public interview for the 2003 Grammy Awards on January 1, 2003. As of now, she is carrying on with a cheerful single life.
Furthermore, she is a canine darling. She is additionally a social laborer and was collaborated with LidRock and the San Francisco-based Family Violence Prevention Fund in 2003.
Ashanti has brought in a decent measure of cash from her calling as an entertainer and vocalist lyricist. Having begun her expert music vocation in the mid 2000s, Ashanti has made some amazing progress becoming one of the notable R&B artist musicians in the music business in her 20 years in length profession. Her kind of revenue is most likely her singles, collections, and series. Counting all her income, Ashanty has without a doubt figured out how to gather a solid fortune assessed to be around $8 million. She likewise makes extra pay from her underwriting bargains.
Ashanti is a flawless woman with an all around kept up with hour-glass body constitution in her mid 40s. She stands tall with a stature of 5ft 3inches(1.6m) while her body weighs around 55kg(121 lbs). She has a voluptuous, alluring, and hot figure with a body estimation of 34-26-37 crawls with a bra cup size of 32C, 6(US) as her shoe size. She has an earthy colored tone with dark hair and dark pair of eyes.