Ashanti

Ashanti is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter born in 1980 in Glen Cove, New York, who rose to fame on Irv Gotti's label Murder Inc. Her self-titled debut album (2002) entered the Billboard 200 at number one and won the Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album, while "Foolish" spent ten weeks atop the Hot 100. Later albums include "Chapter II" (2003) and "Concrete Rose" (2004).