Biography ashanti siddiki

Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13, 1980), better known as Ashanti, is an Americansinger-songwriter, record producer, model and actress.

She became famous in the early 2000s.

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Ashanti released her debut albumAshanti in 2002. It released three singles: "Foolish", "Happy", and "Baby". "Foolish" reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Happy" and "Baby" reached the top twenty.

Ashanti's first album sold 503,000 copies the first week.

Biography ashanti siddiki

She then became the first "new female artist" to sell that many records in one week. She outsold artists including Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill.^[1] She also became the first female artist to have two singles "Foolish" at number one and "What's Luv?" (with Fat Joe) at number two.

Ashanti also became the first artist to have three top ten songs ("Foolish", "What's Luv?" and "Always on Time") on the Hot 100 the same week. She was the first women and second artist, behind The Beatles, to do this.^[2