Xania Monet

Xania Monet is an AI-generated R&B and gospel singer created in 2025 by Telisha "Nikki" Jones, a poet and design-studio owner from Olive Branch, Mississippi, who built the persona while teaching herself AI. Her YouTube channel describes her as "the voice of the heartbroken, the healed, and the in-between", and her Instagram bio tags Jones's own account and a management contact.

Spotify labels her an AI Persona, and press coverage is unanimous that the voice is AI: Jones writes the lyrics from poems about her own life, her family and friends, then generates the music and vocals with Suno, sometimes layering in live elements. CBS reports that Jones does not consider herself a singer and calls Xania an extension of herself.

Her songs appeared on Spotify and Apple Music from July 2025, and the 24-track album Unfolded followed on 8 August 2025 from Hallwood under licence from TMJInc, then Pieces Left Behind on 3 September 2025 and The Things I Didn't Say on 9 January 2026. How Was I Supposed to Know?, written about losing her father at age eight, reached number 1 on R&B Digital Song Sales, number 20 on Hot R&B Songs and number 30 on Adult R&B Airplay, which Billboard called the first radio-chart debut by a known AI artist; Let Go, Let God peaked at number 3 on Hot Gospel Songs.

Her music is contemporary R&B and soul with a gospel strand, built on personal lyrics about grief, heartbreak and faith. The video for How Was I Supposed to Know? mixes live-action footage, and the channel's later uploads are mostly Shorts and lyric-style clips.

Her reach in October 2026 is about 530,300 followers on TikTok, 297,000 subscribers on YouTube, 210,400 followers on Instagram and more than 400,000 Spotify monthly listeners. Techloy reported over 44 million US streams and about 52,000 dollars of revenue in two months, and a bidding war ended in a deal with Hallwood Media, led by former Geffen president Neil Jacobson, reported at about 3 million dollars. Singer-songwriter Kehlani criticised the deal, saying Jones was doing none of the work, and Jones defended the process on CBS Mornings in November 2025 as using AI as an instrument.