Akon

Akon, Born April 16, 1973, under the name Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, is an American singer, songwriter, businessman, record producer and actor, while he is off Senegalese descent. Probably thanks to his single "Locked up" back in 2004, was the reason for how he ended up becoming as big as he is today!

He is notable as the founder of not one, but two different record labels.

Rather ironically, he was able to hold both first and second place in the charts, both at the same time. Mind blowing or what?

Apart from the usual english, he speaks in Spanish and hindi, too and has sung songs in his other languages

Akon has often been keen to provide vocals as part of other peoples songs - and has in fact been featured in over 300 songs!

Studio albums

Trouble 2004

Konvicted 2006

Freedom 2008

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