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Name: Akon
Birth Name: Aliaune Daye Thiam
Height: 5' 11"
Sex: M
Nationality: American
Birth Date: October 14, 1981
Birth Place: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Profession: Rapper, R&B singer
Father: Momar Thiam (Jazz percussionist)
Claim to fame: His debut album 'Trouble' with hit singles 'Locked Up' and 'Lonely' in 2004
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- Is planning to work on a full-length movie about his life. The title has been confirmed as Money, Power,& Respect: A Hustler's Dream, and the release date will be in late 2007or 08.
- Has had many troubles with the law in his life, including a charge for grand theft auto for which he received a jail sentence for three years. He has also gone to jail on many other occasions.
- Is featured in Gwen Stefani's The Sweet Escape from her latest album 'The Sweet Escape' which is scheduled to be released on December 5, 2006.
- Sometimes Credited As: Akon f. Eminem
- Speaks English and Wolof.
- Appears along with Sean Paul on R. Kelly's Slow wind Remix.
- Has his own record label, Konvict Music.
- Locked Up was written after Akon was jailed for three years for armed robbery.
- His road manager Robert Screw Montanez was shot to death following a dispute in New Jersey in December 2005.
- Performed on the CSI episode Poppin' Tags along with Obie Trice.
- When music channel The Box had a top ten weekly chart, which was calculated by the amount of video requests, Akon's Lonely became the longest running single on the top of the chart, spanning over 15 weeks. It was finally beaten by the smash hit You're Beautiful by James Blunt.
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