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R. Kelly is one of the richest R&B Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, R. Kelly's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was a guest on the televised talent program Big Break. It awarded him a $100,000 prize. In 1991, he signed with Jive Records.
He also created Trapped In the Closet, a hip-hopera or rap opera. It was released in four parts from 2005 to 2012.
Robert Sylvester Kelly was born at Chicago Lying-in Hospital in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago on January 8, 1967. He is the third of four children with an older sister and brother and a younger brother. His mother, Joanne Kelly, was a professional singer who raised her children in the Baptist church, where she sang lead in the choir. The identity of his father, who has always been absent in Kelly’s life, is not publicly known. His family lived in the Ida B. Wells Homes public housing project in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. Kelly’s high school music teacher Lena McLin described Kelly’s childhood home: “It was bare. One table, two chairs. There was no father there, I knew that, and they had very little.” Kelly began singing in the church choir at age eight.
Kelly played basketball with the late Illinois state champion basketball player Ben Wilson and sang “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” at Wilson’s funeral. An undiagnosed and untreated learning disability, believed to be dyslexia, left Kelly unable to read or write. He dropped out of high school and as a teenager, Kelly began street performing under the Chicago Transportation Authority “El” tracks and eventually formed a group with friends Marc McWilliams, Vincent Walker and Shawn Brooks. In 1989, they formed the group MGM (Musically Gifted Men). In 1990, MGM recorded and released one single “Why You Wanna Play Me”; after its release the group disbanded. In 1991, Kelly signed with Jive Records. Kelly was extremely close to his mother Joanne, who took him with her to church and a local club where she performed. She died from cancer in 1993. He would later name his eldest daughter after her.
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. He is the 55th best-selling music artist in the United States, with over 32 million album sales. Kelly was named by Billboard as the Top R&B/Hip Hop Artist between 1985-2010 and the most successful R&B artist in history.
