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Aug 18, 2021 · — Jan. 8, 1967: Robert Sylvester Kelly is born in Chicago to Joann Kelly, a school teacher. R. Kelly is third of four children and lives with his family in Chicago’s housing projects. Little is known about his father. — 1975: At age 8, Kelly begins singing in church.
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), known professionally as R. Kelly, is an American former singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is credited with prolific commercial success in R&B, hip hop, and pop music recordings, earning nicknames such as "the King of R&B ", "the King of Pop-Soul", [4] [5] and "the Pied Piper of R&B". [6]
Jun 29, 2022 · Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday following his conviction last year on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges stemming from...
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Jun 17, 2024 · Robert Sylvester Kelly. Born: January 8, 1967, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Awards And Honors: Grammy Award (1997) Recent News. June 13, 2024, 5:01 AM ET (ABC News (U.S.)) Federal judge who presided over R. Kelly trial dead at 87 after battling lung cancer.
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Aug 18, 2021 · Robert Sylvester Kelly, 54, faces a bevy of accusations: one count of racketeering with 14 underlying acts, including kidnapping, forced labor and sex trafficking, as well as eight counts of...
Apr 26, 2024 · CHICAGO — R. Kelly’s sex-crime conviction and 20-year sentence in Chicago’s federal court will stand, an appeals court ruled Friday in a blistering opinion. “For years, Robert Sylvester ...
Sep 13, 2021 · But the racketeering charge, which claims that the singer, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was the head of a criminal scheme that preyed on women and underage girls for sex, allows the...
