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<p>Looks like K. Michelle isn&#8217;t the only R&;B star hopping on the country wave! While speaking with <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/9610805/monica-independent-debut-album-country-interview">Billboard</a>, Monica got candid about her upbringing and how her childhood led to the start of her music career, and it looks like she&#8217;ll be stepping into a whole new genre soon.</p>
<p>Monica confirmed that she is indeed working on a country album, and revealed that she&#8217;s loved country music since she was a little girl.</p>
<p>&#8220;I grew up loving country music and my stepfather, who raised me, is a methodist minister, but he also drove buses and he would take us to Nashville, Gatlinburg and Dollywood in Tennessee,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I became a really big fan of Dolly Parton, at abut 8 or 9 years old. That was my real introduction to country music.&#8221;</p>
<p>Monica was asked to be featured on Jimmie Allen&#8217;s country song &#8220;Pray&#8221;, which see says was an act of destiny because she had not made anyone privy to the fact that she had been working on her own country project.</p>
<p>&#8220;Jimmie Allen is an incredible guy who loves his family and knows they&#8217;ve brought him through a tremendous amount of things. That&#8217;s what we related most about,&#8221; Monica said. &#8220;Jimmie didn&#8217;t call me for &#8216;Pray&#8217; because he heard I was doing a country album, no one knew. He called because he wanted me on it, that means it was meant [to be].</p>
<p>Although Monica is in the booth getting acquainted with the childhood genre she fell in love with, she stepped into The Shade Room to confirm that her die hard R&;B fans will be getting some love soon as well.</p>
<p>&#8220;Thank you Shade Room! My R&;B album is now finished and will drop first,&#8221; she wrote.</p>
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<p>Will y&#8217;all be checking out Monica&#8217;s new album, Roomies?</p>
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