Who is Victoria Monet's Spouse?
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Victoria Monet McCants is an American singer and songwriter who became involved in performing arts at a young age, singing in the youth choir at her church, and performing in a city dance team.
She soon took to writing and began working with producer Rodney Jerkins. Previously signed to Atlantic Records, Victoria Monet released her debut EP Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 1 in 2014 and her follow-up EP Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 2 in 2015.
Victoria Monet followed this with the EP’s Life After Love, Pt. 1 and Life After Love, Pt. 2 in February and September 2018 respectively. Jaguar, an EP was released in August 2020, and Jaguar II will come out on August 25, 2023.
Victoria Monet has written songs for several artists including Nas, Ariana Grande, Blackpink, Fifth Harmony, T.I., GOOD Music, Lupe Fiasco, Chrisette Michele, Coco Jones, Chris Brown, and Dirty Money. In 2019, Victoria Monet received two Grammy Award nominations for Album of the Year for her work on Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next and Record of the Year for “7 Rings”.
Victoria Monet was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to Sacramento, California as a child. Her mother is L’Tanya Chestang-Cubit and her maternal grandmother is Cassaundria Lovett of Mobile, Alabama. She has an older half-brother named Michael Cubit, Jr.
In Catholic elementary school, she appeared on stage in holiday plays, and in church, she sang in the youth choir. In college, she formed her dance group; this led to teaching in two dance studios. She attended Sheldon High School in Sacramento after begging her mother to change her address so she could attend Sheldon’s performing arts program.
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In addition to dance rehearsals, Victoria Monet began a poetry exchange with an older cousin and found a new passion. This quickly translated into writing her music. During that time, she taught herself about the world of production, learned about producers, and was making music at a local recording studio.
She had heard about Rodney Jerkins (aka Darkchild) and decided to add him to Myspace. Soon after, he invited her to Los Angeles and audition for a new girl group he was forming Purple Reign. The group landed a recording contract with Motown a year later but was canceled before releasing any music.
After the group disbanded, Victoria Monet turned to songwriting to earn money while waiting for her music career to develop. The first song she wrote was a track from Diddy’s 2010 album Dirty Money, Last Train to Paris. She continued to write the song’s hook and sang the demos herself before sending them off.
Atlantic Records CEO Craig Kallman heard one of her demos at a meeting and offered her a record deal later that day. Although she was signed, Victoria Monet admits that her songwriting has been “successful” ahead of her music, as she is working on both. Songwriting remained her main source of income during the early part of her musical career.
On October 30, 2014, Victoria Monet released their first EP Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 1, and on June 17, 2015, she released the EP Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 2 by Atlantic Records. Victoria Monet chose this name because it represents the sound of the EP: a dark rhythm mixed with sweet melodies.
Following the Alton Sterling and Philando Castile shootings and the Dallas police shootings, Victoria Monet released “Better Days” featuring Ariana Grande on July 10, 2016. Victoria Monet joined girl group Fifth Harmony on the North American leg of their July 27 Tour, which began on July 25, 2016, opening for pop singer JoJo. Ariana Grande joined Victoria Monet on one of the tour dates to perform “Better Days”.
In 2016, Victoria Monet released the promotional single “Do You Like It” which was followed by the single “Ready”, which was released while on tour with Ariana Grande in April 2017. Both singles were later included on Life After Love Pt. 2. On February 23, 2018, Victoria Monet released the first half of her “Life After Love” series, Life After Love, Pt. 1.
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The project features the single “Freak”, which was released on February 9 with the project’s pre-order. A remix of the song featuring previous tour-mate Bia was released on July 19, 2018, alongside a music video. The latter half of the “Life After Love” series, Life After Love, Pt. 2, was released on September 28, 2018, and was preceded by the single “New Love”.
On April 1, 2019, Victoria Monet and Ariana Grande released the single “Monopoly” while Grande was on her Sweetener World Tour. The song debuted at No. 70 on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Victoria Monet’s first entry on the chart as an artist; Victoria Monet also appeared at No. 16 on Billboard’s Emerging Artists Artist the same week.
At the end of 2019, Victoria Monet released the single “Ass Like That”. The song was the lead single for her upcoming debut project. In early 2020, Victoria Monet released the single “Moment”, followed by the promotional single “Dive”. Victoria Monet was announced as an Apple Music Up Next artist in February 2020.
On June 19, Victoria Monet released the single “Experience” featuring Khalid and SG Lewis and announced her first project, Jaguar. In an interview with Apple Music, Victoria Monet revealed that Jaguar will be released in three separate parts and will eventually come together to form her debut studio album. The first part of Jaguar was released on August 7.
On October 4, Victoria Monet exclusively released the song “Politics” on SoundCloud, leaving part of the song purely instrumental, so listeners could add their lyrics to the song. On October 8, Victoria Monet released a remix of the Jaguar song “Touch Me” featuring American singer-songwriter Kehlani. In December 2020, Victoria Monet released a Jaguar-specific holiday edition titled A Jaguar Christmas: orchestra arrangement.
On February 1, 2021, Victoria Monet released the single “F.U.C.K.” as well as a Western-themed music video. On August 5, 2021, she released another single “Coastin” and a music video was released featuring Rickey Thompson. In June 2022, Victoria Monet performed “Coastin” at the 22nd BET Awards pre-screening and announced that she was working on a follow-up project to her previous EP called Jaguar II.
On March 24, 2023, Victoria Monet released the track “Smoke” featuring Lucky Daye, which is her first new single since 2021. “Smoke” was followed by the singles “Party Girls” (featuring Buju Banton) and “On My Mama”, which were released on May 10 and June 16 respectively. The dancehall remix of “Party Girls” (also featuring Michaël Brun) was released on May 26. In July 2023, Victoria Monet appeared on the cover of the 125th issue of Clash.
Victoria Monet has a long history of writing songs for other artists. In 2010, she helped write “I Hate That You Love Me” by Diddy Dirty Money and went on to co-write songs such as “Be Alright”, “Let Me Love You”, “Thank U, Next”, and “Monopoly” (featuring Monét) by Ariana Grande; “Memories Back Then” by T.I., B.o.B, and Kendrick Lamar; “Drunk Texting” by Chris Brown; “Everlasting Love”, “Them Girls Be Like”, “Reflection”, “We Know”, and “No Way” by Fifth Harmony; “You Wouldn’t Understand” by Nas; “Sin City” by GOOD Music; “Visual Love” by Chrisette Michele; “Live on Tonight” by T.I.; “Do It” by Chloe x Halle; “Rather Be” by Brandy; as well as “Ice Cream” by Blackpink and Selena Gomez.
For her work with Ariana Grande, she was nominated for two awards at the 62nd Grammy Awards, Record of the Year for “7 Rings” and Album of the Year for Thank U, Next. She was later nominated for Best R&B Song for Chloe x Halle’s single “Do It”. Victoria Monet came out as bisexual in 2018. In December 2020, she announced that she was pregnant with her first child. On February 21, 2021, Victoria Monet gave birth to a daughter.
What is Victoria Monet’s relationship status?
Victoria Monet is not married but in a relationship with John Gaines, the father of her daughter Hazel. Victoria Monet came out as bisexual in 2018.
Source: www.Ghgossip.com
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