Kelly has sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him the most successful R&B male artist of the 1990s and one of the world's best-selling music artists. Since the 1990s, Kelly has been the subject of numerous allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct, often with under...
Outside of the courthouse, fans of Kelly gathered as the verdict was announced, playing his biggest hits loudly. In closing arguments last week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Geddes said Kelly "used lies, manipulation, threats and physical abuse to dominate his victims" and took advantage o...
“The lines have already been drawn,” said Jem Aswad, deputy music editor for the trade publication Variety, who has been covering R. Kelly for 20 years. “The people that are going to listen to R. Kelly’s music are still listening to it. I don’t think a guilty verdict is going ...
Three weeks ago, I stood in a room and watched R. Kelly ask a vagina for its hand in marriage. Down on one knee, clad in black leather and a single gold rope chain, the biggest R&B star of the past two decades mugged with exaggeration for reporters' cameras (and an invisible vagina...
“This generation is very clear about who R. Kelly is, right? These young people have come up with the information that this person is a perpetrator, right?” Burke said. “And if we can’t push past our personal likes and desires to dance to a song for the sake of sending a m...
The 41-year-old Kelly, whose first name is Robert, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. But Kelly – one of urban music’s biggest stars, and a consistent hitmaker despite his legal woes – is glad the wait is over, his spokesman said. ...
By February 2004, after netting perhaps one of his biggest hits ever with the 2003 release of "Ignition (Remix)," seven of the 21 counts in the Illinois indictment were dropped. In March, the Florida indictment was dropped entirely. Astoundingly, Kelly's career continued to flourish. He...
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29. R. Kelly Dubbed the Pied Piper Of R&B,R. Kellyis among the most influential figures in the genre, also earning him the monikers King Of R&B and King Of Pop-Soul. His professional music career began in 1989 when he formed the R&B group MGM (Musically Gifted...
R. Kelly is the focus of a new Lifetime docuseries, with the likes of John Legend, R&B artist Sparkle, and civil rights activist Tarana Burke speaking up.