A New Album of Akon features MJ!

2008年10月10日 (金)

A one of the top hitmakers in the music scene, Akon has come to Japan recently and held a listening session of a new album "Freedom".

The concept of this new album is the next stage of "Konvicted". He said, "When you become famous, sometimes you will get offended by the negative coverage, so I tried to express my positive feeling throughout my new album and allay misunderstanding".

Overall, you will get to hear his silky rap on crossover hiphop sounds with posotive atmosphere. Needless to say, a song featuring Michael Jackson, "Hold My Hands" will be the main attraction. His 1st album was sold over 3 million copies and the 2nd was sold over 4 million copies all over the world, chances of reaching 5 million copies with this album are very high.


"Acquited" out on 19th of November, 2008.


【 Scheduled Tracks 】
・ Against The Grain　feat Ray Lavender
・ Holla Holla feat. T-Pain
・ We Don't Care
・ Righit Now
・ Be With You
・ Birth Mark
・ Everything You Do
・ Sunny Day
・ Freedom
・ Hold My Hands feat Michael Jackson
and more.


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【 Akon Biography 】
Although he was born in St. Louis, Aliaune Thiam — aka Akon — grew up in Senegal before he and his family (including his father, jazz percussionist Mor Thiam) returned to the United States and settled in New Jersey when he was seven. There he discovered hip-hop for the first time, as well as crime. He was eventually jailed, but he used the time to work on his musical ideas. Upon release, Akon began writing and recording tracks in a home studio. The tapes found their way to SRC/Universal, which eventually released Trouble, Akon's debut LP, in June 2004. The album was an interesting hybrid of Akon's raps and silky, West African-styled vocals with East Coast- and Southern-styled beats. The success of the song "Locked Up" raised Akon's profile, and he followed up in the fall of 2006 with "Konvicted". Soon enough, two of the album's singles, "I Wanna Love You" and "Smack That," had made their way to the upper regions of the Billboard charts.

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