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Article: Ashanti: answers critics & doubters.(Interview)(Cover Story)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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PRINCESS Ashanti is back with a vengeance. After weathering a couple of troubled years in paradise and maintaining a low profile, the honey-voiced artist is back on the record charts with a superhot CD, Concrete Rose, and lighting up the silver screen with her pretty smile as well. In recent months, she has been a constant on television and in the press as she promoted her record and her role in the movie Coach Carter, starring Samuel L. Jackson.
In addition, she has two other movies coming up this spring: The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, for which she beat out Hilary Duff and Jessica Simpson for the role of Dorothy, and the Indian film, Bride and Prejudice.
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