Monica also is a cousin of record producer Polow da Don, and relative-in-law to rapper Ludacris through her mother’s second marriage to Reverend Edward Best, a Methodist minister.Īt the age of 2, Monica followed in her mother’s footsteps with regular performances at the Jones Hill Chapel United Methodist Church in Marilyn’s hometown Newnan, Georgia. She has a younger brother, Montez (born in 1983), half brother Jermond Grant on her father’s side, and two maternal half-brothers, Tron and Cypress. “Billy” Arnold Jr., a mechanic working for an Atlanta freight company. She is the only daughter of Marilyn Best, a former church singer and Delta Air Lines customer service representative, and M.C. Monica was born in College Park, Georgia on October 24, 1980. In 2010, Billboard listed Monica at number 24 on its list of the Top 50 R&B and Hip Hop Artists of the past 25 years. With a career lasting over 20 years, she became the first artist to top the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Monica has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, including over 5.3 million albums in the United States alone. Her sixth album, Still Standing, which recording was tracked by her BET reality show Monica: Still Standing, was released in 2010 and produced the hit single “Everything to Me”, which became her sixth number one hit on the US R&B/Hip Hop.

The album also included her Top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hit “U Should’ve Known Better”. In 2003, her fourth album, After the Storm, was released, and after an unsuccessful period, she scored her fifth number one single on the US R&B/Hip Hop, “So Gone”. During the production of her third album, All Eyez on Me (2002), Monica experienced personal struggles and her career went under hiatus.

Monica also ventured into acting, with a supporting role in Boys and Girls (2000), and starring roles in television film Love Song (2000). Pushed by its Grammy Award-winning number-one hit title track, a duet with singer Brandy, it spawned two further Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers, “The First Night” and “Angel of Mine”, and established her position as one of the most successful of the urban R&B female vocalists to emerge in the mid to late-1990s.

In 1998, Monica’s second album The Boy Is Mine earned her major international chart success. It went multiplatinum, while its first two singles “Don’t Take It Personal” and “Before You Walk Out of My Life” made her the youngest recording act to ever have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the Billboard Top R&B Singles chart. She rose to prominence after releasing her debut studio album Miss Thang in 1995. Born and raised in College Park, Georgia, she began performing as a child and became part of a traveling gospel choir at the age of ten. Monica also received the 2020 BET Soul Train Lady of Soul Award.Monica Denise Brown, (née Arnold born October 24, 1980), simply known as Monica, is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and actress. Monica is the first artist ever to have #1 Billboard singles in three consecutive decades, which puts her in the elite company of history making superstars such as Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, James Brown and Marvin Gaye, whom also had similar accolades. She’s the youngest female ever to have two #1 back – to- back hits on Billboard’s R&B chart from her 1995 debut album “ Miss Thang.” She was born and raised in Atlanta, GA and began her career at the tender age of 12 years old. Monica is a Grammy Award-winning multi- platinum Artist, 25- million+ selling singer, actress, philanthropist and entrepreneur. Each episode unravels the mystery and the motives behind the crimes revealing a dark side to being in the public eye when betrayal, jealousy and greed lead to tragedy.Ĭases featured this season include the murder of NBA player Lorenzen Wright and the investigation of his shocking death hip-hop artist on the rise Young Greatness, who was gunned down under mysterious circumstances in his hometown of New Orleans a runway model found dead at the bottom of a swimming pool and a popular Chicago radio personality targeted by someone nobody could expect. In the eight episode series, Monica, who knows firsthand what being in the spotlight can bring, explores celebrity cases where notoriety and fame turn fatal. VH1 has announced its new true crime series, “ Infamy: When Fame Turns Deadly,” hosted by GRAMMY Award winning singer, songwriter, actress and VH1 fan favorite Monica, premiering Monday, June 7th at 10pm ET/PT following the season premiere of Cartel Crew.

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