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About R. Kelly
R. Kelly's Early Life
Born into poverty and distress in Chicago's projects, young Robert
Kelly and his two brothers and sister and mother Joanne struggled.
After a shooting by a mugger as a teenager, Kelly looked to basketball
and music to get him away from the atmosphere. Guided by his teacher
Lena McLin, Kelly entered a career in music after singing the
classic ballad, "Ribbon in the Sky" at a talent show
to his high school friends.
R. Kelly's Early Career
By 1990, Kelly started to develop his sound playing his keyboards
and becoming a street performer. He released his first single
"Why You Wanna Play Me" with the group MGM on Tavdash
Records in 1990. His manager at the time, David Hyatt, introduced
him to Wayne Williams at Jive Records. Sometime around 1991 he
met Barry Hankerson. Hankerson became his full time manager after
David Hyatt was sentenced to life in prison for running a large
midwest drug ring. In late 1991 Kelley was introducted to Aaliyah,
and his then group Public Announcement recorded much of what would
be "Born Into the '90s" at a recording studio Kelly
leased. Within a few months, songs like "She's Got that Vibe",
"Slow Dance", "Dedicated", and "Honey
Love" would be the featured songs in Born Into the '90s,
which was released several days after Kelly's 25th birthday in
January 1992. 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.
R. Kelly's - 12 Play and Aaliyah
By 1993, Kelly had come into his own. It only took him a few months
to cultivate the sounds that would fully launch the young musician's
career. Released that fall, 12 Play announced Kelly's mega-star
status and yielded the smash hits "Sex Me", "Your
Body's Calling" and the chart-topping sex romp "Bump
& Grind". Kelly was now so big that by 1994 he was able
to produce for other acts. He found some initial success with
Aaliyah, producing the songs "Back and Forth" and Age
Ain't Nothing but a Number off the album of the same name of the
latter hit.
Kelly and Aaliyah illegally married in 1994; Aaliyah was only 15 but claimed to be 18 on the marriage papers. The press revealed their marriage in 1995, and the two quickly and quietly agreed to annull their union. Aaliyah also ended her professional partnership with Kelly at that time, going on to a hugely successful career that came to a tragic end when she died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001. Allegations of dalliances with teenaged women would come back to haunt Kelly nearly ten years later, but at the time, rumors of the marriage were brushed off with denials.
R. Kelly: The Singer, Songwriter and Producer
After his brush with controversy, Kelly returned to the studio
to record his third album (his second solo effort) in the studio
he now owned. He released his self-titled album in 1995, which
was a big success like its predecessor, selling over 5 million
copies and unleashing classics like "You Remind Me of Something"
(a Top 5 Pop and #1 R&B record in 1995), "I Can't Sleep
(Baby If I)" (a Top 10 Pop and R&B single in 1996) and
his collaboration with legendary R&B singer Ronald Isley of
the famed Isley Brothers, "Down Low" (a Top 10 pop and
R&B record in 1996). The album was hailed by some as the singer's
most mature record. Before then, people had perceived Kelly to
be a sexual deviant because of the lyrics on 12 Play.
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 (producing the remix for Jackson's 1994 smash, "Any Time, Any Place") and Michael Jackson (penning and co-producing the single, "You Are Not Alone" for Jackson's HIStory album in 1995). The latter single became the first in music history to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100 at #1.
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In 1996, fresh off the success of his own albums and off of producing
hits for other artists, Kelly would release his most successful
single up to that time with the theme song from the Michael Jordan
movie, Space Jam - "I Believe I Can Fly". The inspirational
song became a #2 smash and helped Kelly win three Grammy Awards
including Best R&B Song. He was also nominated in the Song
of the Year and Record of the Year categories for that particular
song. Kelly took two years off from music until coming back with
the ambitious double concept album, R. in 1998. That album featured
a smash with pop superstar Céline Dion titled "I'm
Your Angel", which became Kelly's second #1 single on the
Billboard pop singles chart. It also featured the soul anthem
for love-gone-wrong songs "When A Woman's Fed Up" and
the Sam Cooke-inspired "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of
Time". It also had appeal to the hip hop community, with
guest appearances by Nas, Cam'ron and Jay-Z. R. would become Kelly's
biggest-selling album in the U.S. selling over 8 million copies
alone.
During the same year as a smash hit solo album, Kelly also miraculously found time to completely produce, write and arrange a 15-track album for the debut artist of his Rockland imprint. The female singer, Sparkle, had a massive hit atop the R&B charts for 6 weeks with the track "Be Careful", a duet with Kelly himself about the tribulations of a broken marriage, much in the vein of his own "When a Woman's Fed Up". The album involved a combination of upbeat, rap-crowd-pleasers such as the Cam'ron and Nature collabo "Good Life" and sexy, mid-tempo numbers like "Time To Move On" and "Vegas" (which featured a rap from fellow Rockland artist, female-rapper Strings.) The album also featured a faithful cover of the Minnie Riperton track "Lovin' You". Despite a heavyweight like Kelly at the helm of her album, Sparkle's career in music never really got off the ground after "Be Careful"'s success. Remixes of "Lovin' You" (this one by Wyclef Jean) and "Time To Move On" (this featuring Kelly-collaborating rappers Vegas Cats) were issued to create some rap-audience attention but by this point it was too late. Sparkle called it quits, returning two years later on Motown with a tepid effort, no longer promoted with Kelly's superstar presence.
In 2000, Kelly returned to his lover man persona with TP-2.com, a sequel to his 1993 classic album Twelve Play. The biggest singles weren't based on his sexual prowess - "I Wish" (a top 10 pop and #1 R&B record) was dedicated to the people Kelly adored who passed away including his mother and a best friend from the old days, and "Fiesta" (whose remix version featured acclaimed rapper Jay-Z and was a top 5 pop and #1 R&B single) was about partying. But the album's third-biggest single, the loose and humor-filled "Feelin' On Yo' Booty" was immediately comparable to Marvin Gaye in his post-"Let's Get It On" period and to Kelly's earlier hit "Bump & Grind".
The Best of Both Worlds at the Worst of
Bad Times for R Kelly
He also became noted for his hooks on other artists' singles including
a collaboration with the late Notorious B.I.G. on the single,
"You Tonight", on the late rapper's Life After Death
album and was the man to make hits off of songs for Puff Daddy
("Satisfy") and Fat Joe ("We Thuggin'"). By
a couple of years, his collaborations with Jay-Z finally led to
what was supposed to be a history-making project as the rapper
and the singer teamed up to record an album together. Released
in 2002, The Best of Both Worlds debuted at #2 on the Billboard
pop albums chart, but with a combination of no singles and a controversy
regarding Kelly allegedly making a sex tape with an underage teenage
girl, the album was a disappointment for both R. Kelley himself
and for Jay-Z, who didn't want to be associated with the singer
during his child pornography trial.
R. Kelly's Sexual allegations
R. Kelly in the police mugshotAllegations of Kelly's sexual activity
with underage girls go as far back as 1991, when several young
women claimed to have had sex with him. In 1994, rumours surfaced
that Kelly had married fellow singer Aaliyah, which both Kelly
and Aaliyah denied. However, none of the prior reports reached
the level of publicity that followed the release of a video tape
in February 2002 that allegedly showed Kelly and a 14-year-old
daughter of an associate, and niece of a former Kelly protege,
engaging in sex. The tape, released by an unknown source, was
sent to the Chicago Sun Times, the newspaper that broke the story.
While witnesses have identified Kelly and the girl, the alleged
girl herself and her parents have denied that she is the person
shown on the tape. Bootleg copies of the tape became widely available
on the black market and hence via file sharing networks. The tape
showed numerous sex acts, including the girl being urinated on.
In June 2002, Kelly was indicted in Chicago for seven counts of
soliciting a minor for child pornography, seven counts of videotaping
the acts, and seven counts of producing child pornography. These
charges came after viewing the tapes showed that there was no
actual sexual intercourse involved. Currently, Kelly still faces
14 of the charges.
In addition to those charges, Kelly was further indicted in Florida in January 2003 on twelve counts of possession of child pornography. However, the charges were dropped after the search that led to the indictment was ruled illegal. In 2003, comedian Dave Chappelle made a skit showing R. Kelly pouring his urine and "Doo-Doo Butter" on teenage girls. In 2004, allegations emerged that among Kelly's tapes was one including gospel singer Deleon Richards, the wife of New York Yankees baseball player Gary Sheffield.
During the pornography controversy, Kelly's problems carried over into his own family. His wife sought a restraining order against him on September 2, 2005 claiming he physically and verbally attacked her on two occasions but rescinded her request on September 26. Andrea had been a backup dancer before they married and is the mother of his son and two daughters.
R Kelly as the The "Pied Piper of R&B"
Despite the controversies, Kelly moved on with his career releasing
his first album since the allegations came up with the 1960s and
1970s-era soul music-inspired Chocolate Factory in 2003. The album
became a big success yielding the number two hit remix of "Ignition"
and the top 10 single, "Step In the Name Of Love" as
well as the top 20 single, "Snake". Kelly's February
release of the album started off an eventful year musically for
the singer-songwriter-producer as he would produce the #1 hit
"Bump, Bump, Bump" for the now-defunct boy band B2K.
His productions on the Isley Brothers' Body Kiss album helped
land the album at #1. His collaborations with several other acts,
including the Big Tymers, Cassidy, and Jennifer Lopez, became
modest hits that year also.
In 2004, he decided to release a two-sided double-album showing his different sides titled Happy People/U Saved Me with one side, Happy People, celebrating club-going smooth dance-oriented soul cuts and the other showcasing Kelly's inspirational side. Both title tracks were released as singles in mid-2004, with "Happy People" becoming a moderate hit.
Kelly and Jay-Z released a follow up to the album The Best of Both Worlds in October 2004, Unfinished Business, which included eleven previously unreleased tracks by the duo. It debuted at #1 on the US Billboard albums chart. This release was timed to coincide with The Best Of Both Worlds Tour. Jay-Z eventually removed R. Kelly halfway through the tour, after R. Kelly accused Jay-Z's entourage of attacking him with Mace or pepper spray.
Kelly who referred to himself on record as the Pied Piper of R&B, he had a pop hit in a collaboration with rapper Ja Rule and singer Ashanti titled "Wonderful". He release a new album titled TP-3: Reloaded in July, which heralded back to his classic 12 Play period. In April 2005 Kelly released the long awaited "In The Kitchen", well-known among fans attending his live shows. The song was intended to be the album's lead single and received major radio airplay for a couple of months, but Kelly eventually decided to leave it as a buzz single. It was quickly followed up just weeks later with his "Trapped In The Closet" saga, which rapidly climbed, and then suddenly fell, the R&B and urban culture charts nationwide.
After the novelty success of the five-chapter song, which Kelly had likened to an audio version of Desperate Housewives prior to its release, Kelly revealed that he was working on parts six through ten of the song. They were released to radio later in the summer, in a similar fashion to how the first five were released, and Kelly promising to tie up some loose ends that the first five left.
Another song off the album was a duet with rapper The Game titled "Playas Only", which despite an earlier climb has failed to ignite the charts. At the MTV Video Music Awards on August 28, Kelly notably gave a six minute long lip-synched performance of his "Trapped in the Closet" suite.
R. Kelly performed in the 2005 Billboard Music Awards, his performance was outside of MGM Grand.
Kelly is particapting in a charity single written and produced by Michael Jackson. It is unclear if he is particapting in the single as a performer or producer. The single to be titled "I Have This Dream", and released in mid-late February 2006.
R. Kelly Music Facts
R. Kelly had the most Billboard Top 40 hits of any male artist
during the 1990s with 15.
In 2005 VH1 voted a song by R. Kelly one of the "Top 50 Most
Awesomely Bad Songs, Ever".
R. Kelly had the longest-running #1 single on Billboard's Hot
R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart with "Bump &
Grind" registering at #1 for ten consecutive weeks and was
also responsible for the second longest-running #1 single on the
chart that year with Janet Jackson's "Any Time, Any Place",
which stayed at #1 for 10 weeks there and ironically was remixed
by Kelly himself (1994).
R. Kelly's productions on The Isley Brothers' last album, "Body
Kiss", helped the album reach #1 on the Billboard Top 200
Albums chart, making Kelly one of the only artists to have had
performed on a #1 pop album ("Chocolate Factory") and
produce a #1 pop album for other artists ("Body Kiss")
(2003).
The Best Of Both Worlds: Unfinished Business (2004) (with Jay-Z)
debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 Chart selling 215,000 copies
its first week of release in the USA.
Happy People/U Saved Me (2004) debuted at No. 2 on The Billboard
200 Chart selling 403,000 copies its first week of release in
the USA; the album has sold 1 million copies to date in the USA.
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