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)

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1989: Discovered - The daughter of a gospel minister who always wanted to be a singer, beauty queen and model Moore was discovered by record executive Louil Silas at the age of 22.  He promptly signed her to his label, a division of MCA Records.(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)

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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)

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)

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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)

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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)

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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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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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2003: Second Chances - In February 2003, Chante and her new husband Lattimore released a duet album called Things That Lovers Do, and two months later, they showed us: Chante gave birth to the couple's first child, son Kenny Jr.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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2003: Second Chances - In February 2003, Chante and her new husband Lattimore released a duet album called Things That Lovers Do, and two months later, they showed us: Chante gave birth to the couple's first child, son Kenny Jr.(Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

2007: Uncovered/Covered - Moore and her hubby followed up the success of Things That Lovers Do with a double-disc of R&B and gospel songs. The title represented the ups and downs of marriage, and foreshadowed the couple's future relationship.(Photo: Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)

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2007: Uncovered/Covered - Moore and her hubby followed up the success of Things That Lovers Do with a double-disc of R&B and gospel songs. The title represented the ups and downs of marriage, and foreshadowed the couple's future relationship.(Photo: Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)

2007: A Different Kind of Stage - After releasing Uncovered/Covered, the multi-talented Moore tried her hand at acting in the stage play By Any Means Necessary, alongside Tisha Campbell-Martin and Shar Jackson.(Photo: Kevin Winter/ImageDirect/Getty Images)

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2007: A Different Kind of Stage - After releasing Uncovered/Covered, the multi-talented Moore tried her hand at acting in the stage play By Any Means Necessary, alongside Tisha Campbell-Martin and Shar Jackson.(Photo: Kevin Winter/ImageDirect/Getty Images)

Kenny Latimore and Chante Moore - In 2001, husband and wife Kenny Lattimore and Chanté Moore dazzled the stage in together.(Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

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2009: Back to Solo - After five years of recording duets with her husband Kenny Lattimore, Moore went back to solo work with Love the Woman, in which the singer went beyond her R&B and gospel roots to explore a more contemporary sound influenced by jazz.  (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Big 'O' Youth Educational Dream Foundation)

2011: A Change is Gonna Come - In 2011, Moore announced her divorce from Kenny Lattimore and also that she's working on a new solo gospel album called Changed. (Photo: Ben Rose/PictureGroup)

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2011: A Change is Gonna Come - In 2011, Moore announced her divorce from Kenny Lattimore and also that she's working on a new solo gospel album called Changed. (Photo: Ben Rose/PictureGroup)