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Robert Slyvester Kelly |
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The Pied Piper |
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Male |
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6' 1" |
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US - United States of America |
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| Date of Birth |
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January 8, 1967 |
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Chicago, Illinois |
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Biography |
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R. Kelly was born Robert Slyvester Kelly, January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. Born into poverty and distress in Chicago's Southside projects, young Robert and his two brothers and sister and mother Joanne struggled to survive in the streets. Guided by his teacher Lena McLin, Kelly entered a career in music after wowing his high school friends singing the classic Stevie Wonder ballad, "Ribbon in the Sky" at a talent show in 1984. By 1988, Kelly had started to develop his unique sounds playing his keyboards and becoming a street performer. A young musical executive by the name of Wayne Williams sought Kelly and helped get him sign to his first and only record label, Jive Records, in the end of 1989. After forming the group Public Announcement, he and the group went into the recording studio in the end of 1990 and recorded Born Into the '90s. A huge R&B success, the album would yield the featured songs as the hits and would eventually go Platinum selling over a million copies. By fall 1993, 12 Play fully launched Kelly's career into the stratosphere and yielded the smash hits "Sex Me", "Your Body's Calling" and the monster #1 sex romp "Bump & Grind".
Kelly (27) and Aaliyah (15) married in 1994. The marriage was quickly annulled. In 1995, Kelly found his huge success as a songwriter penning hits for R&B group Changing Faces and pop and R&B music legends Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson. In 1996, Kelly would release his most successful single ever with the theme song from the Michael Jordan movie, Space Jam - "I Believe I Can Fly". The song won Kelly three Grammy Awards including Best R&B Song. Kelly was indicted in Florida in January 2003 on 12 counts of possession of child pornography. His current hit is a duet with rapper Ja Rule and singer Ashanti titled "Wonderful".
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