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Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam popularly known as that single name Akon was born on 16 April 1973, he earn to live being a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, entreprenuee, philanthropist and actor.
AKon Parent’s
Father: Mor Thiam
Mother: Kin Gueye Thiam
Akon Age
Akon was born on 16 April 1973, which means that he will be 50 year’s old on 16 April 2023 while he will also be 56 years old on 16 April 2028.
Akon Fame
Akon came into spotlight when he released a song title “Locked Up”, One of the singles in his first album titled Trouble.
Akon Parent’s profession
Mother: Dancer
Father: Percussionist
Akon Family
According to Akon in an interview, he said that he has six children with three women.
Akon Career
Akon came into spotlight when he released a song title “Locked Up”, One of the singles in his first album title Trouble in 2004.
Akon released second album title Konvicted, the album received three nominations from the Grammy Awards in two different categories.
The nominations are: Best Contemporary R&B Album and Beat Rap/Song Collaboration for both song’s tltled “Smack That” and ” I wanna Love You”.
Akon is the first solo artist to ranked number one and two at the same time on a Billboard Hot 100 charts twice. Akon had four songs certified as 3x, 2x, 1x platinum and more te songs certio as gold in digital sales.
He also has record in Guinness Book of World Records as number selling artist for master ringtones in the world.He was nominated for five Grammy Awards and he also released six albums with the help of the artists feature.
Akon do prvides bocals as a featured artist and currently is credited with over 300 guest appearance and greater than 35 Billboard Hot 100 music’s.
Along the way, he produced records for the artists on his respective labels and other artist like Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Leona Lawis, Snoop Dogg, Whitney Houston snd Sean paul.
Akon ranked No. 80 on Forbes as at 2010 Forbes Celebrity 100 and in 2011 he was ranked No.5 in 40 Most Powerful Celebrities in Africa list, Akon was also ranked No.6 on Billboard list of Top Digital Songs Artists of the decade.
Akon Albums
Akon’s first album title Trouble was released on 29 June 2004. It consists of the singles tltle Locked Up, Lonely, Belly Dancer (Bananza) , Pot Of Gold, and Ghetto .
The single title “Locked Up” ranked 8th position in the U.S. and 5th position in the UK. “Ghetto” was always played as a radio hit when it was remixed by DJ Green Lantern which include some verses from 2Pac(rappers) and The Notorious B.I.G.
The album is a hybrid of Akon’s silky, West African-styled vocals mixed with East Coast and Southern beats. Most of Akon’s songs start with the sound of the clank of a jail cell’s door with him saying the word “Konvict”.Akon begin is own new record label Kon Live Distribution under Interscope Records .
His second album title Konvicted was released in November 2006 and dranked No.2 on the Billboard 200, selling 286,000 copies in its first week.
After only six weeks, Konvicted sold more than one million records in the U.S. The album was certified platinum after seven weeks, and after sixteen weeks it was certified double platinum.
It ranked in the top twenty of the Billboard 200 for 28 consecutive weeks and peaked at number two on four occasions. On November 20, 2007, the RIAA certified the album ‘triple platinum’ with 3 million units sold in the US.
On 2nd of December 2008, Akon third album title Freedom which has four singles title: Right Now , I’m So Paid (ft. Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy ), Beautiful (ft. Colby O’Donis and Kardinal Offishall) and We Don’t Care. Freedom was certified platinum in the US. In 2009,Rap singer Nelly suggested that Akon, Pharrell , and T-Pain had talked about forming a rap supergroup.
A single title Angel was released in September 2010 and is produced by Guetta, It was position No.56 on the US Billboard charts. In 2010, he performed the song during the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show .
The single was removed from the final album track list, In which the album was not later released. He also contributed to ” 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 tltle Dirty Work, featured Wiz Khalifa , which was released in February 2013, the single was peaked at number 31 on the Rhythmic Billboard charts.
On11 November 2013, Akon released a standalone single titled So Blue. Akon released five singles from Stadium on 1st of January 2015 and also announced that the album would be a quintuple album, broken up into five genres Euro, Pop, Urban, Island & World.
Akon Album List
- Trouble in 2004
- Konvicted in 2006
- Freedom in 2008
- El Negreeto in 2019
- Akonda in 2019
- Konnect in TBC
- The Konnection in TBC
Konvict Clothing
Akon clothing line was launched in February 2007, named Konvict Clothing. He features urban streetwear including denim jeans, hoodies, T-shirts and hats.
Aliaune is the upscale version, or high-end line, for males and females, which includes blazers, denim jeans and other items.
Film
- Black November in 2012
- American Heist in 2014
- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping in 2016
Net Worth
Akon make money being a songwriter, an actor, music producer and an entrepreneur.
Net Worth 2023: $130 million
Net Worth 2024: Under Review
Question’s
- which other Languages he use’s to sing?Tamil, Hindi , and Spanish
- Where was he born? St. Louis
- Is Akon parent’s Muslim or Christian?He was born to a Muslim Family, Which means that Akon parent’s were Muslim.
Akon Fact’s You Should Never Miss
Real Name: Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam
Date Of Birth: 16 April 1973
Home Town: Senegal
Age: 49 Years Old ( 16 April 2022)
Place Of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S
Stage Name: A-kom
Other names: El Negreeto
Profession: Singer songwriter rapper
record producer actor
entrepreneur philanthropist
Children: 6 Children
Genres: R&B, Pop, Hip hop, Dancehall
Instruments: Vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, drums
Labels: Akonik, Atlantic, Konvict,
KonLive, Republic, Universal Motown, SRC,
UpFront
Website: www.akon.com
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