Ashanti Cancels Show After Cousin Dies

Rhythm and blues star Ashanti pulled out of a concert in Johannesburg late Saturday after her cousin was killed by a drunken unlicensed teenage driver.

Quinshae Snead, 20, was on her way to Ashanti's hotel to get something for the Grammy award-winning singer before the concert when a speeding car hit the back of the car she was traveling in, police said.

Snead was flung from the car, which rolled over, and was thrown into the path of another car in the opposite lane.

The 17-year-old driver of the car that hit Snead's was arrested for drunken driving and hospitalized. He was driving his mother's car without a license, metro police spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said.

The driver of the car in which Snead was riding was also injured and taken to a hospital.

Ashanti, who hails from Glen Cove, N.Y. and whose full name is Ashanti Douglas, sold more than 6 million copies of two albums, including "Ashanti," her debut, which garnered a Grammy Award in 2003 for best contemporary R&B album.

She was reportedly close to her cousin and the two lived together.