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Kelly as one of the best-selling music artists in the United States with 33.5 million albums sold as well as only the fifth Black artist to crack the top 50 of the same list. Kelly was named the most successful R&B artist of the last 25 years by Billboard. Kelly has released 10 studio albums, sold 35 million albums in the U.S., 15 million singles, and over 50 million albums worldwide making him the most successful R&B male artist of 1990s.

2.6 2001–02: Loveland and Best of Both Worlds.

2.8 2004: Happy People/U Saved Me and Unfinished Business.

2.13 2012: Write Me Back and Trapped in the Closet Revivalīorn and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, Kelly was the third of four children.

Kelly's single mother, Joan, was a singer and a Baptist. Kelly's father was absent throughout most of Kelly's life. Kelly began singing in church at age eight. In Chicago, Kelly's family lived in the projects at 63rd Street before relocating to a small house at 107th and Parnell Streets. Kelly entered Kenwood Academy in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood in the fall of 1980 where he met his music teacher Lena McLin, who encouraged Kelly to perform the Stevie Wonder classic Ribbon in the Sky in a highschool talent show. Īs a teenager, Kelly began street performing (or busking) under the Chicago 'L' trains before he eventually formed a group with his friend Marc McWilliams. In 1989, Kelly and McWilliams formed the group MGM (Musically Gifted Men).

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In 1991, Along with Vincent Corey Walker and Shawnth Brooks, Kelly performed on the TV talent show Big Break, hosted by Natalie Cole, and went on to win the $100,000 grand prize. Recording career 1992: Born into the 90'sĬredited as R. Kelly and Public Announcement, the debut album Born into the 90's was released in early 1992, during the new jack swing period of the early nineties. The album yielded the R&B hits 'She's Got That Vibe', ' Honey Love', 'Dedicated', and 'Slow Dance (Hey Mr.

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R KELLY LOVELAND ALBUM CODEĭuring late 1992, Kelly and Public Announcement embarked on a tour called '60653', whose title was the zip code of Kelly's neighborhood. This would be the only album co-credited with Public Announcement. Kelly separated from the group in January 1993. Kelly on the concept of the 12 Play album, 1994. Kelly's first solo album, 12 Play, was released on Novemand yielded the singer's first number-one hit, ' Bump N' Grind', which spent a record-breaking 12 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart. Subsequent hit singles: ' Your Body's Callin'' (U.S. Both singles sold 500,000 copies in the United States and were certified Gold by the RIAA. In 1994, 12 Play was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), eventually going six times platinum.

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