When she was 11 years old, a winning performance of "The Greatest Love of All," patterned after Whitney Houston's version, impressed a talent scout and led to connections with Dallas Austin and Queen Latifah. She started singing in church as a toddler and soon diversified by competing in talent shows. Monica Denise Arnold was born and raised outside Atlanta in College Park. She has since gone independent with singles issued in anticipation of Trenches (2020), her ninth full-length.
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By the time Monica ended her major-label affiliation, following eighth album Code Red (2015), her catalog was deep and deceptively vast, ranging from Diane Warren-penned adult contemporary ballads to Millie Jackson-like broadsides, and from vintage-sounding slow jams produced by Missy Elliott to booming tracks straight from the streets of ATL. She put together four straight Top Ten albums, including the chart-topping After the Storm (2003), and each one involved established and emergent Georgians as producers, fellow songwriters, and featured artists. Just as she and early supporter Dallas Austin were key to the emergence of the Atlanta music scene in the '90s, Monica was a major factor in the city's dominance across the next two decades. Her follow-up, The Boy Is Mine (1998), also went multi-platinum, powered by the Brandy duet of the same title, which for three months topped the Hot 100 before it took that year's Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Like those peers, Monica proved to be no mere shooting star. She stood out with distinctly Southern grit and boldness, as well as unmatched maturity and versatility that belied her age. When Monica arrived in the wake of the new jack swing era with the multi-platinum Miss Thang (1995), the singer was among a class of teenaged pop-R&B newcomers with the likes of Usher, Brandy, and Aaliyah.
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