The Evolution of Chante Moore

How this minister's daughter became a gospel and R&B diva.

Chanté Moore's Gospel Contemporaries - Chanté Moore grew up in the church. That might explain why she has delved into gospel and impressed with her soulful voice even when applied to R&B, the type of music for which she is primarily known. Here's a look of some gospel starlets who embody the type of talent we've grown to love from Ms. Moore.(Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Big 'O' Youth Educational Dream Foundation)
1992: Precious - Three years later Moore released her debut album, which was certified gold and spawned four Top 40 R&B hits: "Love's Taken Over" and "It's Alright," "Who Do I Turn To" and "As If We Never Met." (Photo: Dr. Billy Ingram/WireImage/Getty Images)
1994: A Love Supreme - Moore followed up her impressive debut with an album that showed off her vocal range and drew even more comparisons to her 70s idol Minnie Riperton. The record earned her another Top 20 hit with "Old School Lovin'."(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for USA Today)
1996: Love and Marriage - In the mid-1990s Moore took a short hiatus from recording to focus on being a wife and mother. She gave birth to daughter Sophia in 1996 and married Sophia's father, A Different World actor Kadeem Hardison, a year later. (Photo: Dexter A. Jones/FilmMagic/Getty Images)2000: Chante's Got (Another) Man - In a stroke of unfortunate timing, Moore scored a hit with her song "Chante's Got a Man," which she wrote about Hardison, around the same time she filed for divorce. Within two years she was remarried to fellow singer Kenny Lattimore. (Photo: Moses Robinson/WireImage/Getty Images)

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1992: Precious - Three years later Moore released her debut album, which was certified gold and spawned four Top 40 R&B hits: "Love's Taken Over" and "It's Alright," "Who Do I Turn To" and "As If We Never Met." (Photo: Dr. Billy Ingram/WireImage/Getty Images)

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