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Ashanti

Best-selling hip-hop/R&B singer who started out as a back-up singer for Jah Rule and Jennifer Lopez.

Biography

Ashanti 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 debut album, Ashanti (2002), topped the Billboard album chart just as her debut solo single, "Foolish," was topping the Hot 100 chart. Both her second and third albums, Chapter II (2003) and Concrete Rose (2004), were Top Ten hits. ~ Jason Birchmeier

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