Ashanti has achieved many accolades over the course of her two decades in the spotlight.
And the latest comes courtesy of the Soul Train Awards, who have unveiled the singer as the latest recipient of the Lady of Soul honor.
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Organizers for the November 28 ceremony – which takes place at New York’s Apollo Theater – trumpeted the news moments ago.
Speaking on the honor, Ashanti said:
“I’m honored to be recognized as this year’s ‘Lady of Soul’ honoree. This is a full circle moment for me because I received the ‘Aretha Franklin Entertainer of the Year’ Award at the Lady of Soul Awards in 2002. As we commemorate 50 years of Soul Train, I’m proud to be a part of this legacy and to return to the Apollo to celebrate.”
The news comes on the heels of the nomination reveal.
Hosted by Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell, this year’s Soul Train nominations sees H.E.R. lead with 8, Jazmine Sullivan and Chris Brown following with 6.
The show will simulcast on BET and BET Her at 8 PM ET.
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Lady of Soul? Ashanti? Out of every other artist they could have picked, they chose Ashanti?
Yea and well deserved.
Yeah like no shade but really? and ‘” Because I received Aretha Franklin Entertainer of the Year’ Award at the Lady of Soul Awards in 2002. “…she didn’t have that much out at the time for such a award but whatever.
It makes no sense to me.
OMG I was very young but I specifically remember there being a petition about her receiving that award. It had over 30K signatures lol.
Lol I remember the controversy back in 2002, when she received the prestigious Aretha Franklin award at the (Soul Train) Lady Of Soul Awards. I’m surprised the Soul Train Awards is giving her this award in 2002. Congrats to her she hasn’t release a studio album since 2014.
***2021
Her career came and went. A few cute songs. She just didn’t have the range. Beyonce ended her.
After Crazy in Love dropped, it was pretty much a wrap for Ashanti.
Normani ended UGGmillia
Sorry to break it to you but only Beyonce fans think that At the time chapter II literally knocked Dangerously in love off the #1 spot and stayed at #1 longer plus Bey had more promo and a bigger budget Ashanti next album was a platinum seller Murder inc was literally being shut down the label lost money and sponsors nobody from the label recovered can’t really credit Beyonce with Asahnti down fall that stats don’t match
Bought and paid for by her sugar daddy.
Baby, who buys STA’s? It’s hard to get artist to even show up for the show.
And flopmila? She’s not even nominated for any sort of award this year for that flop Mexican song 😹😹
Normani is more successful than Camila
😂😂
A cotton picking s****
Networth 3 million dollars
Camila
Networth
12 million dollars
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Normani stans from Twitter, stop setting that s**** girl up
A****** about ready to swim over the border cuz her single flopped 😂💯💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻
I ❣️ this for her
Hunny ap3milas ugly illgál busted taco looking ass ain’t received no award nominations 😂💅🏻 Diva told y’all that border crossing munky bab00nmila was a flop chile 💯💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻
Lmaoo little Mexican slavemila slaved into scrubbing those toilets fa free chile🤣😂💅🏻. I heard she got r**** by a pack of filthy Mexican s**** hobos and they gave her diseases! It’s what a flopping bab00n that flops off the charts gets 😈😈💯😂😂💅🏻🤣🤣💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻
Y’all kids in these comments she’s a legend that’s the soul so many positives about her she has never done anything to anyone why do people have envy in there hearts grow up.
Exactly💯💯 If it weren’t for ashanti jh0s “singing”career never would’ve took off 💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻