Akon turns icon for IT City

With much security at the venue, thousands of music-lovers thronged the venue to see their favourite musician live in action.

As the Senegalese-American singer belted out one hit after the other like ‘Don’t Matter’, ‘Lonely’, ‘Beautiful’, ‘Dangerous’, ‘Smack That’, ‘I Wanna Love You’, ‘Sorry Put The Blame On Me’ and ‘Taking It Off’, the crowd was ecstatic and just sang along with him, cheering him and shouting his name loud.

The singer started off in 2004 with album ‘Trouble’, which consisted of chartbusters like ‘Lonely’ and ‘Belly Dancer’. He followed it up with ‘Konvicted’, his second album in 2006, which had hits like ‘Smack That’ and ‘I Wanna Love You’.

Since then, there has been no looking back for the artiste, who has innumerable hits to his credit and has also worked with renowned performers like Michael Jackson, Wyclef Jean, Gwen Stefani, R Kelly, Quincy Jones, Eminem and Whitney Houston.