
Início de carreira
Ashanti foi descoberta por "Diddy", inicialmente ela foi para a Bad Boy Records e cantou uma música da Mary J. Blige.
Depois de se impressionar por sua habilidade cantando, Diddy puxou uma garrafa e disse-lhe que era sua nova fragrância, que ele disse que amava. Ashanti após cheirar a fragrância disse "Oh, isso fede, eu odiei!".
Diddy afirmando que era um teste para avaliar o seu carácter, mais devido a um mau contrato, Ashanti não assinou com Diddy.
Depois de alguns anos, Ashanti assina com a The Inc. Records, e lança o seu primeiro álbum em 2002.
Ashanti é uma cantora americana de R&B, famosa por ganhar prêmios como o GRAMMY Awards com o seu álbum de estréia Ashanti, lançado em 2002, que inclui o hit "Foolish" que vendeu mais de 503.000 cópias em sua primeira semana de lançamento nos Estados Unidos em Abril de 2002, na mesma semana, ela se tornou a primeira mulher a ter os dois principais lugares da Billboard Hot 100 com "Foolish" e "What's Luv?" (com Fat Joe e Ja Rule).
Ela bateu recordes novamente por ter três canções Top 10 com as músicas "Foolish", "What's Luv?", "Always on Time" (com Ja Rule) na Billboard Hot 100 todas na mesma semana, se tornando a primeira mulher a conseguir esta proeza e sendo superada apenas pelos The Beatles.
Ela também fez backing vocal para Jennifer Lopez em I'm Real (Murder Remix) e escreveu e fez backing vocal para a música "Ain't It Funny" (Murder Remix)" música cantada por Jennifer Lopez, ambas alcançando número um na Billboard Hot 100, mais tarde naquele mesmo ano, ela foi nomeada como "Princesa do Hip-Hop e R&B" por causa do seu sucesso e por seus oito prêmios Billboard Music Awards e dois American Music Awards.
Ashanti cita Mary J. Blige, Yolanda Adams, The Clark Sisters e Blue Magic como sua influência musical. Elogiada por ser uma talentosa compositora, Ashanti escreve a maioria de todas as suas músicas.

Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13, 1980) is an American recording artist, record producer, actress, dancer and model 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. The album set a Soundscan record as the biggest opening week sales for a new female artist, outselling debuts by Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill.
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). Ashanti broke records again by having three top ten songs, "Foolish", "What's Luv?", and "Always on Time", 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.
As of 2007, She has sold more than 15 million records worldwide. Ashanti ended the decade (2000-09) as the third top new R&B artist behind Alicia Keys and Beyonce Knowles.
Ashanti has sung background vocals for Jennifer Lopez on "I'm Real (Murder Remix)" and wrote and sang background on the song "Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)" sung by Jennifer Lopez, both reaching number one on Billboard Hot 100 , which was also in the top 10 charts at the same time as "Foolish", "Always on Time" (with Ja Rule), and "What's Luv" (with Fat Joe).
Later that year, she was acclaimed as the "Princess Of Hip-Hop & R&B" by her label and capped off her successful debut by winning eight Billboard awards and two American Music Awards. Within 7 years of Ashanti's career, she has scored 15 top 40 hits on the Hot 100. Ashanti has endorsed numerous products including Gap, Herbal Essences and Mudd Jeans.
Ashanti cites Mary J. Blige, Ella Fitzgerald, Yolanda Adams, the Clark Sisters, and Blue Magic as her musical influences.[9][10] Praised as a gifted songwriter by her peers and critics alike, Ashanti has written/co-written the bulk of all her music.
She is currently working on her own publishing company entitled Written Entertainment.
She released her fourth studio album entitled The Declaration on June 3, 2008 and is currently in the studio working on her fifth.
She also performed the charity tune "Just Stand Up" alongside 14 other female singers for the "Stand Up to Cancer" live television special which helped raise $100 million dollars for cancer research.
Ashanti - Unfoolish feat. Notorious BIG (Extended by Guto Dj)Ashanti - Happy (Extended by Guto Dj)Ja Rule feat Ashanti - Aways on Time (Dj Tracks Version)Ashanti - Rock Wit U (WickedMix Version)Ashanti - I Found Lovin' (Extended by Guto Dj)Ashanti - Every Lil Thing (Extended by Guto Dj)Ashanti feat T.I. - Still Down (Extended by Guto Dj)Ashanti feat. Lloyd - Take me TonightAshanti feat. Ja Rule and R. Kelly - WonderfulAshanti - Only You feat. Caddilac Tac, Merce & Ja Rule (Extended by Guto Dj)Ashanti - Mr So So (RDj Mix & X-Black Dj)02 - Ashanti - Good good [HHS Remix ]Ashanti - Good good (LoLMiX)Ashanti - Summertime (Extended by Guto Dj)Ashanti - The Way That I Love Youashanti - dont need youAshanti - BabyAshanti - Body On Me (Feat. Akon & Nelly) (magrao)ashanti - dont need youAshanti - Gir In The MovieAshanti - Rock Wit U (Jackson Remix) vinil...(magrao)Ashanti - So Over You (magrao)Ashanti - The Worldashanti - to the club remixashanti - to the clubAshanti feat jd - Good Good (magrao)Ashanti feat. J. Star - Pretty Little FlowerAshanti - Hey Baby Ft. Mario Winans