Background Birth name Aliaune Badara Akon Thiam Born April 30, 1973 (age 39) Origin Dakar, Senegal

Background Birth name Aliaune Badara Akon Thiam Born April 30, 1973 (age 39) Origin Dakar, Senegal Genres Hip hop, R & B, Pop Her work Musician Producer Songwriter Years active 1996-present Studio Universal, SRC , Konvict Muzik, and DJ Khaled Ameshirikiana upfront, Lil Wayne, Colby O'Donis, Kardinal Offishall, Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, Young Jeezy Website www.akononline.com
Aliuane Badara Akon Thiam [1] (born. April 30, 1973 [2] [3]), who is better known by the name of the middle mtv music awards 2012 and that is used to design, Akon is a hybrid of Senegal and an American who is a singer and songwriter and R & B record producer, businessman, and charity. He gained fame in 2004 following the release mtv music awards 2012 of the singles mtv music awards 2012 "Locked Up", which was the first from her debut album titled, Trouble. His second album, Konvicted, earned him a Grammy Award nominations mtv music awards 2012 competing for from the song "Smack That". mtv music awards 2012 He so far has launched two record company that is, Konvict Muzik and Kon Live Distribution. He is known as one of the singers who are successful and most versatile style of R & B of the 21st century, gets more than $ 30 million per year. This is according to Forbes magazine. Akon often collaborate with other artists and is currently involved in more than 200 songs and has 36 songs on the list of the Billboard Hot 100. He is the first artist to replace the first and second, respectively, mtv music awards 2012 twice, in the charts of Billboards Hot 100 songs. He is nominated 6 times competing for a Grammy Award and has been involved in a ji prepare the songs of artists such as Lady Gaga, T-Pain, Leona Lewis among others. She has had 19 songs on the unit's 20 best songs worldwide.
Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Early life 1.2 his personal life and claim 2 Work 2.1 2004-05: Debut album: Trouble 2.2 2006-07: 2.2.1 Projects album Konvicted he interact mtv music awards 2012 with other artists 2.2.2 Problems Legal 2.3 2008-present: Freedom mtv music awards 2012 Album 2.5 2.4 Television and Bollywood film 3 Discography 4 Awards and Nominations 4.1 Competition 4.2 American Music Awards 4.3 Grammy Awards Awards Awards MTV Video Music Awards 5 Tour [edit] History mtv music awards 2012
Akon has claimed in interviews that his full name is Aliuane Time Puru Nacka Damala Bouga Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam [4] although there is controversy and debate about his real name and his date of birth. Akon commonly known as Aliuane Thiam. On its long name, full name Aliaune Badara Akon Thiam that have been reported and Alioune Badara Thiam and About.com network claims that his middle name has never been confirmed. About her birth date, some media reported that Akon was born in 1981. Other organizations, including the AP, they claim that Akon was born in 1973, and his mother helped deliver a Senegalese doctor named Gueye Seck.
Legal documents released by The Smoking Gun show the name of Akon Thiam as Aliuane Damala his date of birth as 04.30.1973 [5] or 16/04/1973, [6] however the BBC states that Akon was born on October 14, 1981. [Edit] Early life
As a player, his son, who is credited mtv music awards 2012 instruments from Senegal who was known as Mor Thiam, Akon grew up in the theme of music and was taught to play several instruments including the djembe. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA to avoid activities seeking permission to immigration, but has lived in Dakar, Senegal until he was 7 years old, and then alternating between live Senegal and the U.S. until he was 15 years old, he moved permanently in Jersey, New Jersey.
When Akon posemaka be in jail for 3 years, he began to realize his musical talents and he began to be proud history of music that was in his family. Its unique blend of West African style, his skills and eventually his style of dance drew the chief of the agency Universal. Akon began writing and recording tracks in his home studio. His tapes arrived in the company of SRC / Universal, which released Album (LP) his first, mtv music awards 2012 Trouble, in June 2004. This album is a blend of delicate style of West African Akon mixed with IDU from the East Coast and the South. Akon many songs begins with the sound of the door opening to jail when he uttered the word "Konvict". [Edit] his personal life and alleged
Akon is a Muslim, and he said that he had never