McLin encouraged a young Kelly to leave the basketball team. Kelly entered Kenwood Academy in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood in the fall of 1981, where he met his music teacher Lena McLin, who encouraged Kelly to perform the Stevie Wonder classic "Ribbon in the Sky" in a high school talent show. Kelly calls Lulu his very first musical inspiration. Shortly after, she was found dead downstream. A fast-moving current swept her away while she screamed Kelly's name. They would hold hands and eat make-believe meals inside their playhouse built from cardboard, where they "vowed to be boyfriend and girlfriend forever." Their last play date turned tragic when, after fighting with some older children over a play area by a creek, Lulu was pushed into the water. Kelly was eight years old when he had his first girlfriend. At age 11, he was shot in the shoulder while riding his bike home the bullet is reportedly still lodged in his shoulder. "I was too afraid and too ashamed," Kelly wrote in his autobiography about why he never told anyone. At a young age Kelly was often sexually abused by a woman who was at least ten years older than himself.
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Kelly grew up in a house full of women, whom he said would act differently when his mother and grandparents were not home. There was no father there, I knew that, and they had very little." Kelly began singing in the church choir at age eight. Kelly's high school music teacher Lena McLin described Kelly's childhood home: "It was bare.
Wells Homespublic housing project in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. Kelly's father was absent throughout his son's life. Kelly's single mother, Joanne, was a singer. Robert Sylvester Kelly was born on Januat Chicago Lying-in Hospitalin Hyde Park, Chicago. 6.4 Allegations of music industry complicity.2.9 2012: Write Me Back and Trapped in the Closet revival.
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Kelly as one of the best-selling music artists in the United States with 40 million albums sold as well as only the fifth black artist to crack the top 50 of the same list. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has recognized R. In 20, Kelly released collaboration albums with rapper Jay-Z and has been a guest vocalist for other hip hop artists like Nas, Sean Combs, and The Notorious B.I.G.
In 1996, Kelly was nominated for a Grammy for writing Michael Jackson's song "You Are Not Alone". Kelly has written, produced, and remixed songs and albums for many artists, including Aaliyah's 1994 debut album Age Ain't Nothing but a Number. Kelly became the first musician to play professional basketball, when he was signed in 1997. His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous hip hop and contemporary R&B artists. In 1998, Kelly won three Grammy Awards for "I Believe I Can Fly". He is known for a collection of major hit singles including "Bump N' Grind", "Your Body's Callin'", "I Believe I Can Fly", "Gotham City", "Ignition (Remix)", "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time", "The World's Greatest", "I'm a Flirt (Remix)", and the hip-hopera "Trapped in the Closet". In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play. A native of Chicago, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement.
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Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former professional basketball player.
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