,Hitmaker Akon has been dominating the Billboard charts and tearing up the airwaves for two decades. He just celebrated the 20th anniversary of his debut album, Trouble , which launched him to global ...

AKON was honored with the W.E.B. DuBois Freedom & Justice Award (Photo credit: Raquelle “Rocki” Harris for rolling out Akon has been able to include “more of an African influence” in his work because ...

Things could have been very different for Akon. The five-time Grammy-nominated rapper was born in Missouri but spent most of his childhood in a village in the West African country of Senegal before ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – His real name is Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam, but you know him as Akon. Akon is a singer, songwriter, and wrapper who first rose to fame in 2004 after the release of his ...

Akon said the music video for one of Michael Jackson’s songs was a huge inspiration to him. The “Don’t Matter” singer revealed he became very close to Jackson toward the end of the King of Pop’s life.

Akon, one of the greatest hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues singers, composers and producers, attracted attention in 2004 with the single “Locked Up” from his debut album Trouble, and his “Smack That” from ...

Ten minutes before the start of a benefit concert at Harlem's Apollo Theater, and rapper-singer-songwriter Akon is brawling with his deejay over how to hook a stodgy crowd of Manhattan philanthropists ...

If you've been listening to the radio over the past few days, you may have noticed the orgy of mash-ups and "best of" remixes that now seems to dominate the airwaves around the end of every calendar ...

Becky G and Akon perform at the 2019 MTV, Europe Music Awards (Photo credit: Bang Media) Akon has finally explained why he went on hiatus. The “Lonely” hitmaker went on a three-year hiatus before ...

Pop music star Akon apologized Wednesday for his and David Guetta's"Sexy Chick" music video which has offended Buddhists because it features a poolside bacchanalia with a large statue of Buddha ...