

His last album blackSUMMERS’night, the second installment of his musical trilogy, earned Maxwell his third-GRAMMY® (Best R&B Song for “Lake By The Ocean”) an NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Male Artist), and a Soul Train Award (Best R&B/Soul Male Artist).Īward-winning singer/songwriter, actor, entrepreneur, and author Ashanti has been tapped to receive the seventh annual Soul Train ‘Lady of Soul’ Award. Among her numerous accolades, Ashanti has received several Soul Train Awards throughout her illustrious career, including R&B/Soul Album – Female, Independent R&B/Soul Performance, two awards for R&B/ Soul Single – Female and the Lady of Soul Awards’ Aretha Franklin Entertainer of the Year Award. To date, Maxwell has achieved 4 platinum album certifications from the RIAA. 1 on the Billboard 200 and won two GRAMMY® awards, including Best R&B Album. After an eight-year break between album releases, BLACKsummers’night (2009) debuted at No. It earned GRAMMY® nominations, double-platinum status and RIAA gold for the single “Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder).” Platinum albums Embrya (1998) and Maxwell Now (2001) followed. The soul singer redefined soul music in April of 1996 when he released his critically acclaimed debut on Columbia Music, Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite.

THANK YOU for constantly reading our stories.Maxwell has artfully managed to transfix music lovers for more than two decades, releasing five studio albums, all in his own time and all duly anointed as classics.

Oseikrom Sikanii ft Kweku Flick – No Time.Kweku Smoke ft Kwesi Arthur – on the Street.Kweku Darlington ft Yaw Tog & Kweku Flick – Sika Aba Fie.Jay Bahd ft CityBoy, Reggie, O Kenneth & Kwaku DMC – Condemn.Ypee ft Oseikrom Sikanii- DiDi me Bottom.O’Kenneth ft Reggie & City Boy – Agyeiwaa.Sackey, Kweku Darlington, Okesse 1 and others made the list.

Strongman, Don Elvi, Jay Bahd, Kweku Flick, Sean Lifer, Bro Sammy, Panda Masson, Amerado, Apya, Dead Peepol, Mr. Gyakie, Sony Music signed artist, was named as part of the Artist of the Year list at this year’s event, which was themed “Celebrating The Voice of Ashanti the Past, Present, and Future”
