Ashanti
Offers Ashanti's music videos,
music related books & posters.
These days, R&B girls are a dime a dozen, but Ashanti Douglas
is a step ahead of the pack. Ashanti,
Born in Glen Cove, NY landed her first record deal when she was
14 years old. Three years later, she moved to Atlanta, where her
second label, New Time Ethnic records, was based. She blasted
into the urban music scene in 2002, topping the charts with multiple
singles at once. She quickly became a sensation, gracing the covers
of magazines and dominating urban radio. Ashanti built her reputation
with duets, where she would complement an already popular rapper
— Ja Rule ("Always on Time"), Fat Joe ("What's
Luv?"), the Notorious B.I.G. ("Unfoolish") —
contrasting the tough-guy male perspective with her own. Her presence
was inescapable. She danced most notably in Disney's Polly, and
also appeared in a number of big-name music videos. As an actress,
she made a name for herself with roles in Spike Lee's Malcolm
X and Who's da Man before that.
Success came quickly. A duet with Ja Rule, "Always on Time,"
hit number one on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in early 2002 just
as a duet with Fat Joe, "What's Luv?," was creeping
toward the same number one position. The album's lead single,
"Foolish," raced up the Hot 100 chart, entering the
Top Ten in March alongside "Always on Time" and "What's
Luv?," giving her three Top Ten songs in the same week, including
the number one and two positions; a quite spectacular feat. Gotti
, her producer, readied a remix of "Foolish," titled
"Unfoolish," that featured the Notorious B.I.G. and
again overtook urban radio, where no artist was more omnipresent
throughout 2002 than Ashanti.
Her "Happy" video, which has no firm release date yet,
is only likely to add to that presence. Ashanti is now signed
with Murder Inc.
Offers Ashanti's music videos, music
related books & posters.
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