In 2006-2007 Akon has had one of the most successful spans any singer has ever enjoyed with eleven songs in the Billboard Hot 100. In 2005, Akon gained more popularity after being featured on Young Jeezy's debut album, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101, on the song "Soul Survivor" which became a top five hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Akon then released another single featuring with a New Zealand rapper, Savage with the single Moonshine, which had become a success in both New Zealand and Australia, becoming number one in the New Zealand charts. When music channel The Box had a top ten weekly chart, which was calculated by the amount of video requests, Akon's "Lonely" became the longest running single on the top of the chart, spanning over fifte en weeks. His album also climbed to number one in the UK in April, 2005. The song reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the charts in Australia, the UK and Germany. In 2005, he released the single "Lonely" (which samples Bobby Vinton's "Mr. "Ghetto" became a radio hit when it was remixed by Green Lantern to include verses from legendary rappers 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. His manager Robert Montanez was shot to death following a dispute in New Jersey in December 2005. "Locked Up" reached the top 10 in the U.S. Akon served a three-year jail sentence for grand theft auto, an experience that inspired his "Locked Up". It spawned the hit singles "Locked Up" and "Lonely," as well as "Belly Dancer (Bananza)," "Pot Of Gold," and "Ghetto". Most of Akon's songs begin with the sound of the clank of a jail cell with him uttering the word "Konvict."Īkon's solo debut album, Trouble was released on June 29, 2004. The album is a hybrid of Akon's silky, West African-styled vocals mixed with East Coast and Southern beats. The tapes found their way to SRC/Universal, which released Akon's debut LP Trouble in June 2004. Upon release, Akon began writing and recording tracks in his home studio. He was then subsequently jailed for armed robbery and drug distribution charges, and used his time in prison to work on his music. He recorded his first song, "Operations of Nature," at the age of fifteen. Louis, Senegal, but grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey.
He is the son of jazz percussionist, Mor Thiam. In a September 2007 interview for an Israeli magazine Akon hinted that he was around 25 or 26. Akon says he doesn't know his exact age nor does he understand the importance in releasing his age, but claims he has been "blessed to look young for a long time". However the AP has since reported he was born in 1973 and is 34 years old. Some media institutions reported that he was born in 1981. His age has also been under scrutiny recently. Akon often goes by the shorter, Aliaune Thiam, though other sources have said his name is Alioune Badara Thiam, and says the long form of his name, "Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam," has not been independently verified.
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