Grammy award winning artist Ashanti is set to perform next month in Oregon at the Chinook Winds Casino.

Tickets are available here

These are the scheduled times:

Fri, Mar. 13th, 2009 08:00 PM Chinook Winds Casino (Lincoln City, OR)
Sat, Mar. 14th, 2009 08:00 PM Chinook Winds Casino (Lincoln City, OR)

Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous Grammy Award-winning debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song “Foolish”, and sold over 504,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S. in April 2002. The album set a Soundscan record as the biggest opening week sales for a R&B female artist, outselling debuts by Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill. In the same week, she became the first female performer to simultaneously hold the top two places on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with “Foolish”, and “What’s Luv” (with Fat Joe). She broke records again by having three Top Ten songs Foolish, What’s Luv, and Always on Time, with Ja Rule, on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same week, being the first female to accomplish this feat and being second only to The Beatles.

Ashanti cites Mary J. Blige, Ella Fitzgerald, Yolanda Adams, the Clark Sisters, and Blue Magic as her musical influences. Praised as a gifted songwriter by her peers and critics alike, Ashanti has written/co-written the bulk of all her music. She is currently working on her own publishing company entitled Written Entertainment. She recently released her fourth studio album entitled The Declaration on June 3, 2008. She also performed the charity tune “Just Stand Up” alongside 14 other female singers for the “Stand Up to Cancer” live television special which helped raise $100 million dollars for cancer research.

Her fourth studio album, The Declaration, was released on June 3, 2008. Ashanti ventured out and acquired producers and collaborators primarily outside The Inc. for the first time. She said the album was a representation of the freedom she felt she had at that time in her career. “I’m steering my own ship and taking the lead on everything. You can definitely hear the growth; I’m working with producers I’ve never worked with before”. Irv Gotti was quoted as saying, “she’s having her little Janet Jackson Control moment. Every artist has their moment when they feel they need to take over their own music and this is hers”. The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 with sales of 86,000 copies.