Ashanti
Sign in to saveAmerican singer, songwriter and actress
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1980-10-13
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Mountain Mover
- Study Buddy
- Outrageous Courage
- Grit and Grace
- Conduit of Power
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas born October 13, 1980 is an American recording artist, record producer and actress who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous debut album, which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold over 503,000 copies in its first week of release throughout the U.S. in April 2002. The album set a Soundscan record as the biggest opening week sales…
Known for
- No Address — Violet2025
- It's Dorothy! — Self2025
- Hollywood Demons — Self - Singer & Songwriter2025
- A Motown Christmas — Self2024
- Hot Ones Versus — Self2024
- The Plus One — Lizzie2023
- A New Diva's Christmas Carol — Aphrodite2022
- Honey Girls — Fancy G2021
- VERZUZ — Self2020
- I Can See Your Voice2020
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,456,985
- Total plays
- 15,665,745
Tags
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Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was discovered as a teenager by record producer Irv Gotti and signed with his label Murder Inc. Records, an imprint of Def Jam Recordings, in 2002. That year, she featured on the singles "What's Luv?" by Fat Joe and "Always on Time" by Ja Rule, which reached numbers two and one on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. Along with her debut single "Foolish" (2002) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Closed-loop insulin delivery in suboptimally controlled type 1 diabetes: a multicentre, 12-week randomised trial
· 2018 · cited 389x
- A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance
· 2021 · cited 320x
- Programmed cell death-1 contributes to the establishment and maintenance of HIV-1 latency
· 2018 · cited 146x
- Open Radical Cystectomy versus Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion: Early Outcomes of a Single-Center Randomized Controlled Trial
· 2022 · cited 119x
- Effect of initiating use of an insulin pump in adults with type 1 diabetes using multiple daily insulin injections and continuous glucose monitoring (DIAMOND): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial
· 2017 · cited 112x
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Key dates
- Born
- 13 October 1980
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Douglas
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Glen Cove
- Spouse
- Nelly
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- American English
- Native language
- American English
Gallery (2)
Connections
Categories
1980 births21st-century African-American actresses21st-century African-American singers21st-century African-American women singers21st-century American actresses21st-century American dancers21st-century American singer-songwriters21st-century American women singersActresses from New York (state)African-American female dancersAfrican-American female models