R&B singer Akon is an unlikely superstar. He was born in St. Louis to Senegalese immigrant parents, and it’s a safe bet that no previous Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper is a native Wolof speaker with a ...

Last Sunday (June 3), during a performance in Fishkill, N.Y., 34-year-old R&B artist Akon invited a yet-to-be identified 15-year-old boy from the audience onstage, then proceeded to hoist the young ...

Akon may face police questioning after tossing an audience member from the stage in an incident caught on video and posted to YouTube, People reports. Fishkill, N.Y., Police said officers were looking ...

Akon and Michael Jackson to collaborate? Nothing is official just yet but Akon has confirmed that the possibility is being explored and it could happen in another few months or sooner. Shortly after ...

Following on from dry-humpgate, you'd have thought Akon would have taken his manhandling stage skills down a peg or two. Alas, it seems the Senegalese singer has learned little, if the current YouTube ...

Los Angeles: 'King of Pop' Michael Jackson's "incredibly beautiful" duet with Akon recorded in 2007 will be released on Monday as the first official single from the late singer's next album, it was ...

After three weeks, mounting controversy and the loss of a $3m sponsorship deal, Akon has finally apologised for the now-infamous underage-girl, dry-humping incident. In a statement released to ...

Even though the smash hit "Konvicted" is only his second CD, Akon feels he has achieved one of his main career goals. "I didn't want people to put me in one (niche), trapped in one box where I could ...

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Three years ago he debuted on the charts with the single "Locked Up." This year, Akon locks up Billboard's top pop artist honor. Sign up ...

He was on his best behavior. Sort of. Pop-R&B; sensation Akon played a packed house at Rams Head Live Wednesday night, barely a week after Verizon ended its partnership with the Senegalese star after ...

When Senegalese singer Akon first emerged on The Billboard Hot 100 three years ago, fresh from a jail sentence for car theft that he documented in the top 10 single "Locked Up," listeners weren't… By ...

Can Akon beat this rap? Maybe the cops in Fishkill, N.Y. take a harder line with celebrities. Hip-hop singer Akon better hope they don’t, though, else his hit album “Konvicted” prove too prophetic a ...