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Robert Sylvester Stallone Kelly (born January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois), who goes by the stage name of R. Kelly, is an American R&B singer, songwriter and record producer. He appeared on the music scene as the founder and lead singer of Public Announcement and later became one of the most successful male artists of the 1990s. Kelly is renowned for hits such as "Bump & Grind" (1994), "I Believe I Can Fly" (1996), and his oft-ridiculed mini-opera "Trapped In The Closet" (2005).

Kelly is also notable for a current case against him on charges of child pornography arising from videotaped sex acts. A widely distributed video allegedly shows Kelly performing sex acts on an underage girl.

Biography

Early life
Born in Chicago's Southside Projects, Kelly was the third of eight children. His father was a coal miner who worked as an ice cream man on the weekends. As a teenager, his love for basketball and music provided an escape from the grimy streets he lived in -- in high school(attended Kenwood High School on the Southside of Chicago), Kelly began participating in talent shows. Though one of his music teachers told him that he was going to be a star singer, Kelly allegedly first tried to earn a living as a stripper. Only when that failed did he follow his dream and begin his singing career by performing with a piano in the train stations and streets of Chicago.

Early career
In 1989, Kelly formed the group MGM and the next year, released his first single "Why You Wanna Play Me" with the group on Tavdash Records. The group appeared on the TV talent show Big Break (hosted by Natalie Cole) the following year and won. His manager at the time was David Hyatt. However, it wasn't until Kelly sang at a backyard barbeque (which Wayne Williams of Jive Records attended) that he was finally noticed and from there, he was signed by Wayne Williams to Jive Records. Sometime around 1991 he met Barry Hankerson, who became his full time manager after David Hyatt was sentenced to prison for running a large midwest drug ring. In late 1991 Kelly was introduced to Aaliyah and his then-group Public Announcement recorded much of what would become "Born Into the '90s". Within a few months, would be the featured songs in , The group's first album, Born Into the '90s -- featuring songs like "She's Got that Vibe", "Slow Dance", "Dedicated", and "Honey Love" -- was released in January 1992. Kelly had just turned 25. The R&B album was a huge success, producing several hit songs and selling more than a million copies.


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By 1993, Kelly had left the group to forge a solo career. Kelly's solo debut, 12 Play, yielded three top 40 singles: "Sex Me (Pt. 1)", "Your Body's Callin'", and the chart-topping "Bump & Grind". In 1994, he completed singer Aaliyah's debut album, Age Ain't Nothing But A Number. Released that summer, the album eventually went platinum on the strength of singles like "Back and Forth" and "At Your Best".

Kelly and Aaliyah married illegally in 1994 -- Aaliyah was only 15 but claimed to be 18 on the marriage papers. Vibe magazine revealed their marriage in 1995, and the two quickly and quietly annulled their union. Aaliyah also ended her professional partnership with Kelly at that time. She would go on to have a successful career, albeit one tragically cut short by her death in a plane crash on August 25, 2001. At the time, rumors of the marriage were fended off with denials; however, nearly a decade later, allegations of dalliances with underage girls would come back to haunt him.


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). His 1995 self-titled album was another big success, selling over 5 million copies and spawning hit singles such as "You Remind Me of Something", "I Can't Sleep (Baby If I)" and his collaboration with legendary R&B group The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley, "Down Low". The album was hailed by some as the singer's most mature.

In 1995, Kelly found success as a songwriter penning hits for the R&B group Changing Faces and pop and R&B music stars 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

In 1996, Kelly released his most successful single to date: "I Believe I Can Fly". The inspirational theme -- created for the animated Michael Jordan movie, Space Jam -- hit #2 on the singles charts 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 "I Believe I Can Fly".

Kelly then took two years off from music, coming back in 1998 with the ambitious double concept album, R. The album featured a hit duet with pop superstar Céline Dion titled "I'm Your Angel", which became Kelly's second #1 single on the Billboard pop singles chart. Other hits included "When A Woman's Fed Up" and "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time". R. would be Kelly's biggest-selling album in the US, with US sales topping 8 million copies.

During the same year of his own release (the R. album), Kelly also found time to completely produce, write and arrange an album for the debut artist of his Rockland imprint. R&B 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". Despite the hit, Sparkle's career never got going and the singer called it quits with Kelly, returning two years later on Motown with a tepid effort, no longer promoted by Kelly's superstar backing. Sparkle would later return to the spotlight speaking against Kelly during his court case for child pornography, claiming the girl in the video was her niece.

In 2000, Kelly returned with TP-2.com, which was promoted as a sequel to his 1993 classic album Twelve Play. The biggest singles weren't based on his sexual prowess - "I Wish" was dedicated to the people Kelly adored who had died, and "Fiesta" (whose remix version featured acclaimed rapper Jay-Z) was about partying.


The Best of Both Worlds
After being noted for singing hooks on hip-hop tunes by The Notorious B.I.G., Nas, Puff Daddy and Jay-Z, there were talks that his collaborations with the latter rapper 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 no music videos were shot for the album. Commercially, the album was a disappointment for both R. Kelly himself and for Jay-Z, who didn't want to be associated with the singer during his child pornography trial.

Sexual allegations

Kelly's sexual activity with underage girls go as far back as 1991, when several girls claimed to have had sex with him. In 1994, rumors surfaced that Kelly had married fellow singer Aaliyah, which both singers had denied in the past.

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 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 over file sharing networks. The tape showed numerous sex acts, including the girl being urinated on. In June 2002, Kelly was indicted in Chicago for 21 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 fourteen 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 2004, allegations emerged that among Kelly's tapes was one including gospel singer Deleon Richards, the wife of Detroit Tigers baseball player Gary Sheffield.

There have been several other lawsuits against R. Kelly.[1] A female dancer sued for invasion of privacy alleging secret taping of her private acts with him and allowing distribution of copies without her consent. Two other sex suits by underage girls were settled and he denied any relationship with either of them. Another woman sued him claiming he seduced her at age 16, got her pregnant, and forced her to get an abortion.

During the pornography controversy, Kelly's problems carried over into his own family. His wife, Andrea, 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.[2] A trial date has still not been set [1] but it will feature a public showing of the videotape that allegedly shows Kelly performing sex acts with an underage girl.

R.Kelly was recently quoted as saying "How would people react if they found out that the girl pissed on me before I pissed on her,and that I did it in self-defense?"[citation needed].Many comedians have made fun about this comment. Dave Chappelle who made a video about R.Kelly pissing on people in particular [2],one comedian named Earthquake said "If pissing on people is an act of self-defense then what the f**k is violence?"


Trivia
R. Kelly had the most Billboard Top 40 hits of any male artist during the 1990s with 15.
In 2005 VH1 voted "You Remind Me of Something" by R. Kelly as one of the "Top 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs, Ever".
R. Kelly's "Bump & Grind" stayed at #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart for twelve weeks making it one of the longest-running #1 hits on the chart since the chart's reinstation to Billboard in 1965. It was the longest-running #1 hit in 1994.
In 2003, comedian Dave Chappelle made a music video on his comedy show parodying Kelly's sex scandal. In the video titled "Piss on You," which contains elements from Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" and "Feelin' on Yo' Booty," Chappelle depicts Kelly as having a urine and scat fetish. Kelly is shown pouring from a bucket labeled "R. Kelly's Doo Doo Butter" and spraying liquid from a can labeled "R. Kelly's Urine." Minutes later in the same episode, he played the "Piss on You Remix," a parody of "Ignition (Remix)."
In 2002, MADtv also produced a music video parody featuring Aries Spears as Kelly singing of his ability to "get away" with statutory rape. The video, a parody of Kelly's "The World's Greatest," features Kelly flirting with a several teenage girls and preparing to make a sex tape with them. An additional joke, was that the video was labeled as being directed by Roman Polanski.
In 2005, the animated Adult Swim series The Boondocks dedicated an entire episode, "The Trial of R. Kelly", to parodying the singer's alleged crimes.
In 2005, again, MADtv produced a music video parody about his urban opera Trapped in the Closet titling it "Trapped in the Cupboard."
In the South Park episode Trapped in the Closet, R. Kelly appears at Stan's house singing his opus trying to get Tom Cruise to come out of the closet. A returning gag with Kelly is that, like in the song, at any given time Kelly will pull out a gun causing every one to panic. At the end of the episode, instead of coaxing Cruise out of the closet, Kelly joins him and sings "now I'm in the closet too."[3]
In 1997, Kelly signed a contract to play professional basketball for the Atlantic City Seagulls of the USBL.

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