Chammak challo singer akon biography
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Akon
Senegalese-American singer (born )
Not to be confused with Acon, A-Kon, or Abdus Sattar Akon.
Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam (born April 16, ), known mononymously as Akon (), is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, businessman, and philanthropist. An influential figure in world music, he rose to prominence in following the release of his single "Locked Up" (featuring Styles P). Styled in hip-hop, it preceded the release of his debut studio album Trouble (), which became his commercial breakthrough and spawned the R&B-styled follow-up, "Lonely" the following year.
His second album, Konvicted (), was met with continued success and was nominated for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, while its lead singles, "I Wanna Love You" (featuring Snoop Dogg) and "Smack That" (featuring Eminem), both received nominations for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. The songs simultaneously pe
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So check this out. We&#;ve got Akon, a Senegalese American, singing in Hindi, collaborating with legendary duo Vishal-Shekhar on a track featured in , a Bollywood rulle. And it&#;s awesome &#; like, on the &#;awesome enough for me to buy it&#; level. Could I invent something more well-suited to this blog?
The following film tells much of the story behind the recording of this song. The discussion in the first minute fryst vatten kind of adorable and helps to elucidate the song&#;s meaning, and the effort Akon &#; not a Hindi speaker &#; put into this song is evident:
Small disclaimer: inom don&#;t speak Hindi, and am therefore perhaps not the best person to say this, but inom wouldn&#;t know from listening to &#;Chammak Challo&#; that Akon didn&#;t speak Hindi. When was the gods time we got this ABBA-ish &#; ABBA?
I like Akon&#;s creative choices in emphasizing the percussive aspects of the music and imbuing the lyrics with an almost chant-like character. The sista product fryst vatten upbeat, and
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If you didn’t already know, Akon is a Senegalese American hip-hop artist, song writer, producer and businessman. Earlier, whilst stumbling out of my Facebook vs Twitter online consumption continuum, I found myself on his Wikipedia page. And, though I don’t know everything about every single recording artist in the world, I feel confident in saying that he has had the most ludicrous career of any R&B artist. Ever.
Since this is the internet and people no longer want to read anything that isn&#;t comprehensively organised, I’ve compiled a list of his career highlights.
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AKON HAS SUNG SONGS IN OTHER LANGUAGES INCLUDING SPANISH AND HINDI
I thought that The Beatles were the only English speaking band that had recorded songs in other languages until about five minutes ago when I found out that Akon has recorded songs in both Spanish and Hindi. This puts him on the same linguistic plane as Paul, John, George and Ringo.
The lyrics to his Hindi track, “Chamm