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Ashanti

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The daughter of a singer and a dance teacher and the grand-daughter of a civil rights activist who campaigned with Martin Luther King, Ashanti seemed destined for fame from an early age. As a child she had dance lessons and sang with the local church choir and by the time she was in her early teens she was already performing R&B in New York clubs. She sang backing vocals on records by a variety of artists (including Big Pun, Vita, Ja Rule, Jennifer Lopez and Fat Joe), and in 2002 she released her debut album Ashanti which she'd written entirely herself; the album included the sma...