Victoria Monét, it’s safe to say, has left her songwriter-to-the-stars era behind and graduated to pop stardom. When we meet in the London offices of her record label, Sony, she is immaculately formed: long, poker-straight blond hair runs down to her stiletto-heeled boots, and she is flanked by makeup and hair stylists touching up her look at random intervals.
The week before we speak, the 34-year-old received seven Grammy nominations, making her the second most-nominated artist of the year. Waving off jetlag and hunger pangs amid a flurry of press appearances (the food brought in by team members remains politely untouched), she is still beaming in the wake of meeting one of her heroes the night before: Janet Jackson. “It feels like Christmas,” Monét says in the soft-spoken voice of a Disney princess. “God is showering me with blessings right now.” Not least her two-year old daughter, who she always makes time for in among her gruelling schedule.
