Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas was born in October 13, 1980. The talented record producer, actress, dancer, and model made her debut in 2002. Her self-entitled debut album Ashanti that featured the hit song "Foolish" won a Grammy Award, and sold over half a million copies in its first week of release April 2002 and was certified three times platinum. Booking Ashanti guarantees the success of you event.
With this album 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" featuring Fat Joe.
Moreover, the FHM magazine considered Ashanti the "Sexiest Woman in Music" in 2002. The young singer also received a Comet Award and two Soul Train Music Awards.
Ashanti’s second album Chapter II was released in July 2003, and it soon reached number one on the Billboard 200. Similarly to the previous album, it sold more than 300,000 copies in the U.S. within the first week and remained on top position for two weeks. Chapter II went Platinum, selling 4.5 million in the U.S. and over 7 million worldwide. Since then, Ashanti released two more albums Concrete Rose (2004) and The Declaration (2008).
As an actress, Ashanti starred in Coach Carter alongside Samuel L. Jackson, the comedy John Tucker Must Die and the sci-fi horror action Resident Evil: Extinction.
Besides her singing and acting, Ashanti is also a highly skilled songwriter having written songs for a wide variety of artists such as Christina Milian, Ja Rule, Jennifer Lopez, Nas, Toni Braxton, to mention only a few.