First fame and recognition came with the single Locked Up, written by Akon during his sentence. One of the first successful experiments was the composition Show Out featuring him uttering fragments of poems from school text books. As only author and producer of his own songs, Akon was free to look for unusual sounds, patterns and solutions. Indisputably talented, Akon presented a unique type of music decorated with his gentle voice sounding intimate and profound. It was loaded with his experience and impressions from the past life, mostly dark emotions and memories. In 2004, the singer released his first long player, Trouble. He sent his demos to numerous companies until SRC, a Universal subdivision, signed him up. Three years in confinement persuaded the young man to never break the law again.Īfter leaving the prison, Akon equipped his own room with the necessary facilities and built up a small studio to work on his own material. Locked in jail, Akon wrote some of the songs that would be featured on his albums. The sentence time was enough to reconsider life values and directions to go. This occupation brought him to prison where Akon spent three years. He offered his vehicles to celebrities, sportsmen, actors and musicians. As a teenager, Akon decided to launch an illegal business selling stolen cars. It was never released as Akon was not deeply interested in music at that time. Aged fifteen he wrote his first composition, Operations of Nature. He studied poorly and always found troubles with law. When he was seven, he moved to the States. In such circumstances, the boy could not but love music, especially drums and percussion. There are several opinions on his real name, but according to the most popular version, it is Aliaune Thiam. His excursion into Latin music on 2018’s El Negreeto also saw him tap into his limitless energy as a performer, one whose career has shifted beyond music into movies, philanthropy, and even developing his own cryptocurrency (called Akoin, of course).The uprising star of the mainstream music, Akon, was born in Senegal to a family of a famous jazz musician Mor Thiam.
But despite all the starry partnerships and his larger-than-life presence, Akon’s greatest asset remains the vulnerability displayed in the gentle lilt of his vocals. A starmaker in his own right, he helped launch Lady Gaga and T-Pain via his Konvict and KonLive labels and mixtape series. His silky tenor was the thread that linked hits as diverse as Gwen Stefani’s effervescent “The Sweet Escape” (which he also co-wrote and co-produced) and David Guetta’s inescapable “Sexy Bitch.” In 2006, he got top billing on his match-ups with Eminem (“Smack That”) and Snoop Dogg (“I Wanna Love You”), two highlights of his second album, Konvicted. In the years that followed his 2004 breakthrough single, “Locked Up,” Akon was everywhere at once. Louis, Missouri in 1973-devoted himself to music, leaving behind the troubles that led to prison time as a young man. In the second half of the 2000s, it seemed like there were two magic words attached to the titles of just about every pop, dance, and hip-hop track on the charts and in the clubs: “featuring Akon.” Akon’s productivity is a testament to the drive he’s displayed ever since the Senegalese-American singer-born Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam in St.
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