Monica’s soulful poise made her the perfect femme fatale to square off against Brandy’s woman scorned on the pre-eminent R&B cage match of 1998, “The Boy Is Mine,” and Monica’s multiplatinum album of the same name further mined the song’s tension between emotionally charged lyrics and sophisticated symphonic production. But even as her 1995 debut, Miss Thing, heralded the Atlanta native’s graduation from the church to the club-making her the youngest artist ever to top the Billboard R&B charts with two consecutive singles-those gospel roots were never far from the surface. Like her peers Brandy and Aaliyah, Monica (born Monica Denise Arnold in 1980) was a former choir kid who blossomed into a bona fide R&B teen queen.
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