Check this out even thought  Akon has a birth certificate and was born here in the U.S he claims he doesn't know his real age and says he'll rather keep it that way.

"All it's going to do is depress me," he told The Associated Press in a recent interview. "I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that." 

"In Africa ... age is not important over there. They don't care. People only focus on it here (America) and in Europe." The rapper/singer goes on to say he never knew it.

Akon says when people ask, he just gives him a figure that comes to mind.

"I feel like I'm 21 right now," he says. "And I'll be 21 for the next 10 years."

Numerous reports have put his age between 25 to 35 years old. In 2006, he gave his age as 25. But now, he claims his birth certificate shows he was born on April 16, 1977, which would make him 31.


WOW...REALLY AKON!