A starmaker in his own right, he helped launch Lady Gaga and T-Pain via his Konvict and KonLive labels and mixtape series. In 2006, he got top billing on his match-ups with Eminem (“Smack That”) and Snoop Dogg (“I Wanna Love You”), two highlights of his second album, Konvicted.
His silky tenor was the thread that linked hits as diverse as Gwen Stefani’s effervescent “The Sweet Escape” (which he also co-wrote and co-produced) and David Guetta’s inescapable “Sexy Bitch”. In the years that followed his 2004 breakthrough single, “Locked Up”, Akon was everywhere at once. Louis, Missouri in 1973-devoted himself to music, leaving behind the troubles that led to prison time as a young man. In the second half of the 2000s, it seemed like there were two magic words attached to the titles of just about every pop, dance and hip-hop track on the charts and in the clubs: “featuring Akon.” Akon’s productivity is a testament to the drive he’s displayed ever since the Senegalese-American singer-born Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam in St.
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