AKON

I´m going to introduce you this singer. I like very much his songs and lyrics.

Aliuane Badara Thiam is his real name. He is a singer American - senegalés and wólof of hip hop composer, and in occasions rapper and musical producer. was born on April 30, 1973, in San Luis (Missouri). It jumped to the reputation in 2004 with the single "Locked Up" of his first album Trouble. On his second disc, Konvicted, was including the single "Smack That", by which it was nominated to the Grammy. He is the founder of Konvict Muzik and Kon Live Distribution. Akon is known for singing choirs and has collaborated in more than 175 songs, 40 of them included in the Billboard Hot 100. We Are The World 25 For Haiti.
Akon grew in a family dedicated to the music and learned to play several instruments, between them the yembe. He did not have any problem of immigration, but it lived in Dakar, Senegal, up to seven years of age. During a time between The United States and Senegal, Akon settled himself definitively in the North American country 15 years after age, when it fixed his residence in Jersey City, New Jersey.