Akon(El Negreeto)Biography| Who is Akon?
Akon is also known as Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and actor.
He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of “Locked Up”, the first single from his debut album, Trouble.
He has since founded two successful record labels, Konvict Muzik and KonLive Distribution. The labels served as a stepping stone for many soon-to-be successful acts, such as Lady Gaga, T-Pain, R. City, Kardinal Offishall, and Red Café.
His second album, Konvicted received three nominations for the Grammy Awards in two categories, Best Contemporary R&B Album for Konvicted album and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Smack That” and “I Wanna Love You”.
He is the first solo artist to hold both the number one and two spots simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 charts twice. Akon has had four songs certified as 3× platinum, three songs certified as 2× platinum, more than ten songs certified as 1× platinum and more than ten songs certified as gold in digital sales.
Akon has sung songs in other languages including Tamil, Hindi, and Spanish. He was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the #1 selling artist for master ringtones in the world.
Akon often provides vocals as a featured artist and is currently credited with over 300 guest appearances and more than 35 Billboard Hot 100 songs, resulting in five Grammy Awards nominations.
He has released 6 solo albums and has handled the majority of production on his solo work and guest features. Alongside this, he also produced records mainly for artists on his respective labels, as well as for other artists such as Michael Jackson, Snoop Dogg, Lionel Richie, Leona Lewis, Sean Paul, and Whitney Houston. Read also about Colby O’Donis
Forbes ranked Akon 80th (Power Rank) in Forbes Celebrity 100 in 2010 and 5th in 40 Most Powerful Celebrities in Africa list, in 2011. Billboard ranked Akon No. 6 on the list of Top Digital Songs Artists of the decade.
Akon Age | How Old is Akon?
Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and actor.
He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of “Locked Up”, the first single from his debut album, Trouble. Akon was born on April 16, 1973, in St. Louis, MO. Akon is 46 years old as of 2019
Akon Education, Early life
Akon was born in St. Louis, Missouri in a Muslim family. He was born as “Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Bongo Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam”.
He spent a significant part of his childhood in Senegal, which he described as his “hometown”. A child of a dancer mother and a percussionist father, Mor Thiam, Akon learned to play five instruments, including drums, guitar, and djembe.
At age 7, he moved with his family to Union City, New Jersey, splitting his time between the United States and Senegal until settling in Newark, New Jersey.
Growing up in New Jersey, Akon had difficulties getting along with other children. When he and his older brother reached high school, his parents left them on their own in Jersey City and moved the rest of the family to Atlanta, Georgia. Akon attended William L. Dickinson High School in Jersey City.
Akon Height and Weight| How Tall is Akon?
Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and actor.
He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of “Locked Up”, the first single from his debut album, Trouble. Akon has a height of 5ft 10 ⅛ (178.1 cm) tall
Akon Net Worth And Salary| How Much Worth is Akon?
Akon is also known as Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and actor. He rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of “Locked Up”, the first single from his debut album, Trouble. Akon has an estimated net worth of $80 Million dollars as of 2019
Akon Career
2010–18: Stadium and hiatus
A single, “Angel”, produced by Guetta, was released in September 2010, which peaked at number 56 on the US Billboard charts, significantly lower than his previous outings. Akon performed the song during the 2010 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
Akon traveled to Jamaica to work with Damian, Juliam and Stephen Marley. Around the same time, Akon collaborated with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg on “Kush”, charting on number 36 on the Billboard charts.
The single was first intended to from Dr. Dre’s forthcoming album Detox; however, it was removed from the final album tracklist, with the album eventually being unreleased.
He also contributed “We Are the World: 25 for Haiti”, a charity single in aid of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. After an almost 3-year hiatus from solo work, Akon released the promotional single “Dirty Work”, featuring Wiz Khalifa, which was released in February 2013, peaked at number 31 on the Rhythmic Billboard charts.
Later that year, on November 11, 2013, Akon released a standalone single titled “So Blue”.
On January 1, 2015, Akon released five singles from Stadium. He also announced that the album would be a quintuple album, broken up into five genres (Euro, Pop, Urban, Island & World). All singles failed to chart.
In November 2015, Akon announced via his official website that he was planning to release his fourth album Stadium in four versions: Stadium- Island, Stadium- Urban, Stadium- World and Stadium- House.
These editions of the album will be available exclusively via the Stadium mobile app which is supported by ads but allows fans to stream the albums. The album was indefinitely postponed and was completely scrapped.
In late 2015 and early 2016, Akon released the singles “Want Some”, “Hypnotized” and “Good Girls Lie”, upon striking a new record deal with Atlantic Records.
In April 2016, Akon appeared in the Chinese reality TV show I Am a Singer along with the Taiwanese singer Jeff Chang. Later that year, he was featured on the remix of Joey Montana’s single, “Picky”, and featured alongside Chris Brown on Gucci Mane’s Michael Jackson tribute single, “Moonwalk”.
In late 2017, he released a collaborative mixtape with Konvict signees entitled Konvict Kartel Vol. 2.
2019–present: Return to music, Akonik Label Group, El Negreeto, Akonda, Konnect, and The Konnection
Akon has announced his new record label Akonik Label Group and will release four studio albums in different genres. In May 2019, Akon released his first Latin single “Get Money”, featuring Puerto Rican rapper Anuel AA.
It was intended to be the lead single for his fourth album El Negreeto but didn’t appear on the final version of the album. The album was expected to be released on August 30, 2019, but was pushed back to October 4, 2019.
After that album, Akonda will be released on October 25, 2019, which will serve as his fifth album and will contain Afrobeats music. The album’s singles are “Low Key” and “Wakonda”.
After that album, Konnect will be released on November 22, 2019, which will serve as his sixth album and will contain Hip hop and R&B music like previous albums.
The album’s singles are “Benjamin” and “Can’t Say No”. On September 6, 2019, Akon released “Cómo No” featuring Mexican-American singer Becky G, as the lead single from El Negreeto.
Akon Movies And Tv Shows
Akon has confirmed that a reality television show is in the works. It will be called My Brother’s Keeper, and the point is that Akon’s two nearly identical brothers will go around in Atlanta posing as him fooling people into thinking that it is in fact, Akon.
They will try to get VIP treatment, girls and free things. Akon has claimed that people have mistaken his brothers for him many times in Atlanta, which is what the show is based on.
In 2006, it was announced that Akon is planning to work on a full-length movie titled Illegal Alien, which will be based on his life. Several sources have reported that actor Mekhi Phifer will portray Akon in the film.
Besides, Akon confirmed in August 2007, in an interview with the Polish website INTERIA.PL, that he works on a movie, “Cocaine Cowboys”, which tells the story of Jon Roberts, the main pilot of the Medellín Cartel.
On November 30, 2007, Akon entered the Big Brother house in Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2 as a guest. He also appeared on an edition of November 17, 2008, of WWE Raw, with Santino Marella citing him in his speech.
He collaborated with music director duo Vishal-Shekhar and the English and Hindi lyrics of “Chammak Challo” as a part of the soundtrack for the 2011 Bollywood film Ra.One.
He made his acting debut appearing alongside an ensemble cast in the 2012 Nigerian-American film Black November. In 2014, he starred alongside Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody in the action movie, American Heist, directed by Sarik Andreasyan.
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Akon Wife, Children, Kids, Family | Who is Akon Married to?
Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and actor.
Akon is a married man who is married to his wife Tomeka Thiam, with whom he has two children (he has six children altogether). In addition to Thiam, he and another one of his wives, Tricia Ana, appeared on the most recent season of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.
Akon claims that he has six children with three women in an interview with Blender, all of whom he has great relationships with. He says he wishes to keep his family protected from the public eye.
He owns a diamond mine in South Africa and denies the existence of blood diamonds (also known as “conflict diamonds”) saying, “I don’t believe in conflict diamonds. That’s just a movie.
Think about it. Nobody thought or cared about conflict diamonds until ‘Blood Diamond’ was released.” However, he has since stated that he does accept that blood diamonds exist and that he is partial-owner of an African mine that is dedicated to avoiding the use of blood diamonds while also donating profits to local communities.
He appeared on the ITV2 show The Hot Desk. He stated on the show that he is a fan of the English Premier League club Chelsea F.C.
In October 2018, Akon received some media coverage for his “serious consideration” in running for President of the United States in the U.S. 2020 Election.
Akon Legal difficulties
Akon has stated that he was part of an auto-theft ring and spent four years in prison from 1999 to 2002. However, in April 2008, The Smoking Gun website challenged his claim with court records and interviews with detectives involved in Akon’s case, concluding that he was not convicted of any crime and did not serve time in prison.
he responded to the report by saying that he never spent 3 years in prison but had many shorter sentences that add up to three years.
In April 2007, Akon drew criticism for an onstage act which included simulated sex with Danah Alleyne — a 15-year-old girl at the time who is the daughter of a pastor and sister of Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne — at the Zen Nightclub in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, as part of a fake contest, despite the club’s claim to have a 21 years and over age requirement.
The incident was filmed by Akon’s crew and later uploaded to the Internet. On April 20, 2007, local media, channel CCN TV6, aired the video clip publicly. Amid criticism on the radio, television, and from the blogosphere, Verizon Wireless removed ringtones featuring Akon’s songs.
Verizon also decided not to sponsor The Sweet Escape Tour where Akon was to be the opening act for Gwen Stefani. However, Universal Music Group did not take action against Akon, but rather simply ordered the video clip be removed from video-sharing site YouTube due to copyright infringement. Conservative commentator and Parents Television Council founder Brent Bozell called this “corporate irresponsibility”.
Political commentators Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham, and Bill O’Reilly criticized Akon for “degrading women”. Malkin uploaded commentary about Akon to YouTube, using footage from music videos and the Trinidad concert, and Universal Music Group then forced its removal by issuing a DMCA takedown notice.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation joined Malkin in contesting the removal as a misuse of copyright law, citing fair use. In May 2007, UMG rescinded its claim to the video, and the video returned to YouTube.
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