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Victoria Monét McCants built her career by pairing performance training with years of professional songwriting before her own records became her main headline. She was born on May 1, 1989, in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to Sacramento, California, as a teenager when her parents relocated for work. As a kid, she was already on stage in Catholic school holiday plays, and she sang in a church youth choir. By junior high school, she had formed a dance group, and that work eventually led to teaching at two dance studios, long before her name was associated with major pop and R&B credits.
Her first steps into the music business came from writing, learning in studios, and following producer networks closely. After trading poetry with an older cousin, she began turning that writing into songs, while working with a Sacramento based producer and learning how producers shape records. That path led her to connect with Rodney Jerkins on MySpace, which resulted in an invitation to audition in Los Angeles for his girl group project, Purple Reign. The group signed a deal with Motown, then was dropped before releasing any music, and that setback pushed Monét toward songwriting as a way to earn income while continuing to build her own artist career.
Songwriting became the engine that put her in rooms with major acts, while she kept recording her own demos. One of her first major placements was on Diddy Dirty Money’s 2010 album Last Train to Paris. She wrote hooks, recorded demo vocals herself, and sent those versions out with the hope that labels would keep her voice on finished releases. Craig Kallman, Atlantic Records’ chief executive, heard one of her demos during a label meeting and offered her a record deal that same day, and she has acknowledged that her writing work gained traction faster than her solo career at the start, even while she pursued both.
Her relationship with Ariana Grande became a defining thread in her credits, and it also put her songwriting on Grammy level stages. She co wrote songs across Grande’s studio albums from Yours Truly through Positions. In 2019, her work connected to Thank U, Next earned her three Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year, and she also received a Record of the Year nomination tied to “7 Rings.” That same year she and Grande released “Monopoly,” which became a top forty hit on the UK Singles Chart, and it debuted at number seventy on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Monét her first Hot 100 entry as an artist.
As her own catalog expanded, she released a run of EP projects that built toward wider recognition. Her debut EP Nightmares & Lullabies Act 1 arrived on October 30, 2014, followed by Nightmares & Lullabies Act 2 on June 17, 2015, both released under Atlantic. She continued with the two part Life After Love series, releasing Life After Love, Pt. 1 on February 23, 2018 and Life After Love, Pt. 2 on September 28, 2018, with singles tied to that era including “Ready,” “Freak,” and “New Love.” Touring also became part of her profile, including opening slots on Fifth Harmony’s 7/27 Tour in 2016 and Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman Tour in 2017.
Her commercial breakthrough as a recording artist is anchored by one studio album so far, Jaguar II, released in 2023. The album’s biggest single, “On My Mama,” reached the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. That nomination was part of seven total Grammy nominations she received at the sixty sixth Annual Grammy Awards, where she won Best New Artist, Best R&B Album for Jaguar II, and Best Engineered Album, Non Classical. The period around Jaguar II also included key singles such as “Smoke,” featuring Lucky Daye, “Party Girls,” featuring Buju Banton, and her headlining The Jaguar Tour in 2023.
Outside of her own releases, her public story includes both personal milestones and specific industry support work. She came out as bisexual in 2018. She and John Gaines announced in December 2020 that they were expecting their first child, and she gave birth to a daughter on February 21, 2021, later sharing that she and Gaines had been broken up since 2023. In 2024, at age three, their daughter became the youngest nominee in Grammy Awards history, credited for her laughter on Monét’s song “Hollywood,” which received a nomination for Best Traditional R&B Performance. Also in January 2024, Monét partnered with the Black Music Action Coalition to create the “BMAC x Victoria Monét Music Maker Grant,” which provides a five thousand dollar grant plus mentorship and career advice from Monét to support select emerging Black artists.
Complete List Of Victoria Monét Songs From A to Z
- 1900’s – Jaguar II – 2023
- 2Sexy (Interlude) – Jaguar II – 2023
- 90’s Babies – Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 2 – 2015
- A Little More (Machine Gun Kelly featuring Victoria Monét) – General Admission – 2015
- Alright – Jaguar II – 2023
- Ass Like That – Jaguar – 2020
- Backyard – Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 1 – 2015
- Big Boss – A Jaguar Christmas: The Orchestral Arrangements – 2020
- Big Boss (Interlude) – Jaguar – 2020
- Breaking Point (Remix) (Leon Thomas featuring Victoria Monét) – Electric Dusk – 2023
- Cadillac (A Pimp’s Anthem) – Jaguar II – 2023
- Cam Girl (with Ludmilla) – Non-album single – 2025
- Coastin’ – Non-album single – 2021
- DickAtNight – Jaguar II – 2023
- Dive – A Jaguar Christmas: The Orchestral Arrangements – 2020
- Dive – Jaguar – 2020
- Do You Like It – Life After Love, Pt. 2 – 2016
- Don’t Sleep (featuring Thundercat) – Jaguar II – 2023
- Everybody Needs Someone – Jaguar II – 2023
- Experience – Jaguar – 2020
- Experience (with Khalid and SG Lewis) – Non-album single – 2020
- F.U.C.K. – Non-album single – 2021
- Freak – Life After Love, Pt. 1 – 2018
- Girls Need Love (Girls Mix) (with Summer Walker, Tyla and Tink) – Non-album single – 2023
- Go There With You – Jaguar – 2020
- Good Bye – Jaguar II – 2023
- Got Her Own (with Ariana Grande) – Charlie’s Angels – 2019
- High Luv – Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 2 – 2015
- Hollywood (featuring Earth, Wind & Fire and Hazel Monét) – Jaguar II – 2023
- How Does It Make You Feel – Jaguar II – 2023
- I’m the One – Jaguar II – 2023
- Jaguar – Jaguar – 2020
- Love Is Stronger than Pride – Jaguar II – 2023
- Made in China (featuring Ty Dolla Sign) – Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 1 – 2014
- Moment – A Jaguar Christmas: The Orchestral Arrangements – 2020
- Moment – Jaguar – 2020
- Monopoly (with Ariana Grande) – Thank U, Next – 2019
- New Love – Life After Love, Pt. 2 – 2018
- Nothing Feels Better – Non-album single – 2022
- Offa Me (Davido featuring Victoria Monét) – 5ive – 2025
- On My Mama – Jaguar II – 2023
- Party Girls (featuring Buju Banton) – Jaguar II – 2023
- Persuasion (Bryson Tiller featuring Victoria Monét) – Bryson Tiller – 2024
- Ready – Life After Love, Pt. 2 – 2017
- See the Light – Non-album single – 2015
- Smoke (featuring Lucky Daye) – Jaguar II – 2023
- Smoke (Reprise) – Jaguar II – 2023
- SOS (Sex on Sight) (with Usher) – Jaguar II – 2023
- Stop (Askin’ Me 4Shyt) – Jaguar II – 2023
- The Greatest – Jaguar II – 2023
- The Greatest (Lovenotes Outro) – Jaguar II – 2023
- Touch Me – A Jaguar Christmas: The Orchestral Arrangements – 2020
- Touch Me – Jaguar – 2020
- Touch Me (Remix) (featuring Kehlani) – Non-album single – 2020
- We Might Even Be Falling In Love (Interlude) – Jaguar – 2020
- We Might Even Be Falling In Love / Jaguar (Medley) – A Jaguar Christmas: The Orchestral Arrangements – 2020
- We Might Even Be Falling in Love (Duet; with Bryson Tiller) – Jaguar II – 2023
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas – Non-album single – 2022
Albums
Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 1 (2014-2015): 2 songs
General Admission (2015): 1 song
Nightmares & Lullabies: Act 2 (2015): 2 songs
Life After Love, Pt. 2 (2016-2017): 3 songs
Life After Love, Pt. 1 (2018): 1 song
Charlie’s Angels (2019): 1 song
Thank U, Next (2019): 1 song
A Jaguar Christmas: The Orchestral Arrangements (2020): 5 songs
Jaguar (2020): 9 songs
Non-album singles (2015-2025): 8 songs
Electric Dusk (2023): 1 song
Jaguar II (2023): 21 songs
Bryson Tiller (2024): 1 song
5ive (2025): 1 song
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