An Techloy Article:
Xania Monet isn’t your typical rising R&B star. For one, she never shows her face. When label executives recently hopped on a Zoom call to talk business, she joined without video, and when they asked her to sing, she declined.
That’s not diva behavior. It’s because Xania isn’t flesh and blood. She’s an AI-crafted artist, dreamed up by Mississippi-based designer and poet Telisha “Nikki” Jones. Using the generative music platform Suno, Jones fed her poetry into the system and turned her words into full songs.
And the music industry noticed. A bidding war to sign Xania climbed as high as $3 million before Hallwood Media, led by former Interscope exec Neil Jacobson, closed a multimillion-dollar deal.