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| Birth Name(s) : Monica Denise Arnold |
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Full Monica Arnold Biography
After giving birth to her first child, Rodney Ramone Hill III, in May 2005, and another short hiatus, Monica released her fourth studio album, The Makings of Me in October 2006. While maintaining a recording career Arnold has also gained fame for appearing in several film and television productions, including supporting roles in big screen motion pictures Boys and Girls (2000) and ATL (2006) and a starring role in the MTV Films telefilm Love Song (2000).
In 1991, at the age of eleven, Arnold was discovered by music producer Dallas Austin at the Center Stage auditorium in Atlanta. Amazed by her voice, Dallas offered her a record deal with his Arista-distributed label Rowdy Records and immediately hired rapper and actress Queen Latifah as Monica's first manager. Shortly afterwards Dallas and Arnold entered the studio to start writing and producing her debut Miss Thang.
After years of recording Monica's debut album, co-produced by Daryl Simmons, Tim & Bob and Soulshock & Karlin, was released to mixed reviews on July 18, 1995. While the longplayer debuted at a moderately successful 36 on the U.S. Billboard 200 only, Miss Thang soon became a triple platinum success thanks to constant sales and the success of its singles: Pre-released "Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)" and double-A-single "Before You Walk out of My Life/Like This and Like That" both entered the top 10 of the official Hot 100 and simultaneously became platinum certified number-one hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, making Monica the youngest artist ever to have two consecutive chart-topping hits on latter chart.
After graduating high school at age 16 with a 4.0 GPA in 1997 and a label change to Clive Davis's Arista Records, Arnold's mainstream success was boosted, when Diane Warren-written "For You I Will," from the Space Jam movie soundtrack, became her next top 10 pop hit.
Jermaine Dupri, David Foster and Austin consulted on the album The Boy Is Mine, which was released later that year and became Monica's most successful worldwide. It yielded another two U.S. number-one hits with "The First Night" and "Angel of Mine," a cover of Eternal's 1997 single, as well as a remake of Richard Marx' "Right Here Waiting". Rolling Stone Magazine proclaimed it as "closer to soul's source ... hearking back past hip-hop songbirds like Mary J. Blige and adult-contemporary sirens like Toni Braxton", while All Music Guide called the album an "irresistible sounding immaculately crafted musical backdrop as good as mainstream urban R&B gets in 1998."
Monica also started appearing in films and showed interest in acting. She starred in Love Song and was featured on Boys and Girls in 2000.
Arnold channeled much of her heavily media-discussed experiences into the production of her third studio album, All Eyez on Me, her first release on mentor Clive Davis newly-founded J Records label. "I just wanted to give the people back something that had personal passion, instead of just, 'Oh, let's dance to this record,'" she said about the issuses worked into the tracks. Yet the first single released from the project was "All Eyez on Me," a Rodney Jerkins-produced R&B-dance song which saw minor to moderate success on the charts. A follow-up song, "Too Hood," also got a lukewarm response and as a result, the album's tentative release was pushed back several times. "I don't think people wanted to hear a big fun record from me, after knowing all the things that I had personally experienced," Monica second-guessed her new material which saw both early and heavy bootlegging via internet at that time.
On May 21, 2005, Monica and her fiancé, producer and Rowdy co-founder Rodney "Rock" Hill, Jr. welcomed a son into the world. The pair named the child Rodney Ramone Hill III, after his father. His godfather is rapper Ludacris, Monica's cousin-in-law.
Singles: "Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)" · "Like This and Like That" · Before You Walk out of My Life" · "Why I Love You So Much" · "For You I Will" · "The Boy Is Mine" · "The First Night" · "Angel of Mine" · "Inside" · "Street Symphony" · "Right Here Waiting" · "I've Got to Have It" · "Just Another Girl" · "All Eyez on Me" · "Too Hood" · "So Gone" · "Knock Knock" · "Get It Off" · "U Should've Known Better" · "Everytime tha Beat Drop" · "A Dozen Roses (You Remind Me)" · "Sideline Ho" · "Hell No (Leave Home)" |
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