Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, model, and fashion designer who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous Grammy Award-winning debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold over 503,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S. in April 2002. In the same week, 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" (with Fat Joe). She broke records again by having three Top Ten songs Foolish, What's Luv, and Always on Time, with Ja Rule, on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same week, being the first female to accomplish this feat and being second only to The Beatles. She recently released her fourth studio album entitled The Declaration on June 3, 2008.

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Name: Ashanti
Birth Name: Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas
Height: 5' 3''
Nationality: American
Birth Date: October 13, 1980
Birth Place: Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
Profession: Singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, model, and fashion designer