Ashanti interviews at BET “Creme of the Crop” dinner party
Ashanti at BET awards dinner party at Mr Chow in Beverly Hills, Ca. June 27, 2010. Multi talented artist Ashanti, is a Grammy — Award winning artist, singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, who rose up to fame in the early 2000. With her famous hit song ” Foolish”. She has sold over 503000 copies in its first week of album being released in the U. S early April 2002. Being big as she is in the entertainment industries, Ashanti became the first female performer holding the top of the chart for two places on the Billboard Hot 100 single chart with hit song “Foolish” and What’s Luv? With Fat Joe. In her early childhood, everybody in her family call her “Bon Bon”. She join the gospel choir at her church when she just six years old, but the one who really discover her talent, her mother heard her singing to May J Bilge’s song called ” Reminisce” to herself at the age of twelve. Ashanti began writing songs as a teenager; she performed in many different local talent shows venues such as at the Soul Café, China, Club, and Madison Square Garden. Just after two years later, at the age of fourteen, she was discovered by P. Diddy ‘s Bay Boy Records. Then she was appearing in front of P. Diddy and Biggie Smalls, singing one of Mary J Blige’s songs, but at the end due to bad contract issues, she did not sign with P. Diddy’s record company, but in stead it lead her to Jive Record, where she been signed with in 1994. In her love life, she had been linked to rapper Nelly, at …
Good quality video recorded live from Top Of The Pops 1982. Tight Fit are a British pop group who had a number of hits in the early 1980s, including a UK No.1 (for three weeks) with their cover version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” in 1982. The group had two completely different line-ups – the first (a group of session singers) in 1981 and a male/female trio in 1982. In 1981, record producer Ken Gold came up with the idea to record a single made up of a medley of 1960s songs. The medley trend was in full swing at this time, following the success of Starsound and their Stars on 45 singles. He put together a group of male/female session singers and released “Back to the 60s” under the group title, Tight Fit. The song became a hit in the summer and reached No.4 in the UK Singles Chart. A follow-up, “Back to the 60s Part 2” was released soon after and also hit the UK Top 40. Later in the year record producer Tim Friese-Greene recorded the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” with another group of session singers. The song was released in early 1982 again under the title Tight Fit. The song gained instant attention and so a group was formed to front it. Dancer, singer and male model Steve Grant was teamed up with female singers Denise Gyngell and Julie Harris. The song reached No.1 in the UK for three weeks and the line-up were catapulted into sudden and unexpected stardom. Satisfied that this line-up could actually sing in their own right, Friese-Greene produced their next single …