Monica

Monica – whose cat fight with fellow high school R&B diva Brandy, "The Boy Is Mine," hit
Number One – shuns the frightful slow-jam genre so popular among her schoolmates.
Instead the seventeen-year-old music-biz veteran has chosen a more classic path, with
help from the cool hand of producer (and fellow Atlantan) Dallas Austin. The songs on her
titled-for-maximum-name-recognition The Boy Is Mine hearken back past hip-ho... More >

A B-diva with actual vocal technique, and why not? ("The Boy Is Mine," "Misty Blue").