MTV Arabia, the region’s first Arabic free-to-air youth entertainment and lifestyle channel, will accompany AKON, the soul superstar, to the Urban Desert Event on April 18 in Dubai festival city.This will be Akon’s second visit to the Middle East—he first performed at the MTV Arabia launch ceremony in November 2007.
The channel offers viewers a [...]

It’s always nice to listen to music by Akon because you will surely find a song that will be perfect with your feelings at that moment. Akon started his big international debut in 2004 with many hit singles like Lonely, Pot of Gold, Ghetto, Locked Up and Belly Dancer. In his hit single [...]

R&B star Akon has signed a deal to write a book based on his life. Thug Politics will be released by TRU Publishing, which is owned by fellow rapper C-Murder. It is expected to hit shelves in April or May.
A movie version of Akon’s life story entitled Illegal Alien is also rumoured to be in [...]

DJ phones famous friend to rescue deal (TheTimes - South Africa) Metro FM DJ Tbo Touch roped in the help of his mate, the award-winning Senegalese soul singer, Akon, to sort out the mess caused by a phoney US agent.

Tbo Touch, 26, whose real name is Thabo Molefe, was trying to bring R&B sensation [...]

Akon says his new album is called Acquitted and he is aiming to have it out the first week of May. The R&B singer/producer is hoping that Michael Jackson can cameo on the lead single, and MTV News reports that while MJ has recorded his part, legal barriers are holding up his official involvement with [...]