What did Robert Sylvester Kelly, known professionally as R. Kelly, do before he was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer?
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ATL (band) ATL was an R&B group from Atlanta, Georgia. The vocalists are Tré, Will, L-Rock and rapper Danger. They had enlisted R. Kelly to produce their debut album "The ATL Project", released in July 2004. Two singles released from this album: "Calling All Girls" (#12 UK Singles Chart, May 2004), and "Make It Up With Love" (#21 UK, August 2004).
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R. Kelly Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), known professionally as R. Kelly, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former professional basketball player. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement. In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album "12 Play". 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 1998, Kelly won three Grammy Awards for "I Believe I Can Fly". His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous hip hop and contemporary R&B artists. Kelly became the first musician to play professional basketball, when he was signed in 1997.
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Home Alone (R. Kelly song) "Home Alone" is a single by musician R. Kelly, on his third solo studio album titled "R." It was the fifth single on that album and charted at #65 on the Billboard charts. The song features rapper Keith Murray and uncredited vocals from Kelly Price, a video has been made for the song. It charted at number 22 at the R&B/Hip Hop charts and at number 17 on the UK charts.
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Stole (song) "Stole" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Rowland. It was written and co-produced by Dane Deviller, Sean Hosein and Steve Kipner and recorded for Rowland's solo album "Simply Deep" (2002). Generally well received by music critics, the lyrics of the track chronicle three different scenarios with young people, whose lives are drastically changed by the aftermaths of a suicide and a school shooting.
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Rainy Davis Denise Lorraine Davis, better known by her stage name Rainy Davis, is an American R&B songwriter, singer, and record producer. Out of four "Billboard" charted singles, Davis is known best for her song "Sweetheart". The single was originally released on the New York-based independent label called Supertronics Records. However, after the song became a hit in the clubs, then on urban radio and eventually crossing over to pop radio, Columbia Records A&R Exec Joe McEwen offered Rainy Davis a production-artist deal for worldwide physical distribution, which included buying Davis's previous contract from Supertronics. Rainy Davis went on to record two albums for Columbia and received numerous awards for her contributions to hit songs over the years.
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List of unreleased songs recorded by R. Kelly American singer, songwriter and record producer R. Kelly has released 12 studio albums, 5 compilation albums and 3 collaboration albums. Kelly has sold over 100 million records, making him the most successful R&B male artist of the 1990s and also one of the best selling musical artists of all time. He is listed by Billboard as the most successful R&B/Hip Hop artist of the past 25 years (1985-2010) and also the most successful R&B artist in history.
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Only the Loot Can Make Me Happy "Only the Loot Can Make Me Happy" is a song performed by R&B musician R. Kelly and Poke & Tone from Trackmasters Entertainment. The song was written and produced by R. Kelly and the Trackmasters. The song heavily samples the 1987 Surface's song "Happy".
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Trapped in the Closet (Chapter 1) "Trapped in the Closet (Chapter 1 of 5)" is an R&B song written and produced by American singer R. Kelly for his tenth studio album "TP.3 Reloaded". It was released in early 2005 as the album's lead single together with "Sex in the Kitchen". The song is also featured on the soundtrack of the movie inspired by the song Trapped in the Closet Chapters 1-12. VH1 ranked it #41 on its list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the '00s".
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Richie Barrett Richard Barrett (July 14, 1933 – August 3, 2006), also known as Richie Barrett, was an American singer, record producer, and songwriter.
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Tah Mac Tah Mac (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rapper and songwriter, who rose to fame as a producer of various Hip hop and R&B acts, before releasing his first solo album in 2009.
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Down Low (Nobody Has to Know) "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)" is an R&B song about infidelity, released as a single by R. Kelly and featuring The Isley Brothers, on his self-titled album, in 1995. The song was a hit, peaking at number four on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and reaching number one on the R&B Singles Chart for seven weeks, making it Kelly's fifth single to do so on the latter.
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TP.3 Reloaded TP.3 Reloaded is the seventh studio album by R&B singer R. Kelly. The album is the third entry in the 12 Play series. The album includes the first five parts of the song "Trapped in the Closet." The album became his fourth #1 on the "Billboard" 200 album chart. The album sold 1.52 million copies in the US.
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Dan Kelly (recording artist) Dan Kelly was an American pioneer recording artist, best known for his 'Pat Brady' series of humorous recitations. Kelly was born in New York City January 22, 1842. Both of his parents were musicians, and he began performing at 13 years old, at Wyatt's Theater in Hartford Connecticut. He continued in minstrel shows such as Bryant's and Christy's, as well as traveling panorama demonstrations, before moving to Cincinnati to record for the Ohio Phonograph Company (a regional subsidiary of the North American Phonograph Company). Kelly recorded also for the Columbia Phonograph Company and New Jersey Phonograph Company (also subsidiaries of North American at the time). An article in The Phonogram magazine speaks to his popularity in the early 1890s - "Where is there a phonograph in the United States or Canada without a Brady? The answer is, no-where!", and "Kelly [...] stands to-day the acknowledged head of all humorous talkers for the phonograph". For all of his fame in the earliest days of the phonograph industry, he doesn't seem to have made any recordings later than 1893 or 1894, and it's unclear what he did later in life. Because he only recorded onto 'brown wax' cylinders, few of his recordings survive today.
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Jack Rieley John Frank Rieley III (November 24, 1942 – April 17, 2015) was an American record producer. He was the manager of the Beach Boys during the early 1970s, and is credited with guiding them back to acclaim. He would also sometimes act as a co-songwriter with the rest of the band, usually penning lyrics.
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Jeff Barry Jeff Barry (born Joel Adelberg; April 3, 1938) is an American pop music songwriter, singer, and record producer. Among the most successful songs that he has co-written in his career are "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", "Da Doo Ron Ron", "Then He Kissed Me", "Be My Baby", "Chapel of Love", and "River Deep - Mountain High" (all written with his then-wife Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector); "Leader of the Pack" (written with Greenwich and Shadow Morton); and "Sugar, Sugar" (written with Andy Kim).
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Qmillion Qmillion (born Keith Lewis, in the US), is a record producer, mix engineer, composer, and writer based in Los Angeles. Qmillion's achievement for recording and mixing recording artist Robert Glasper's critically acclaimed "Black Radio" album, gained him a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 55th Grammy Awards in 2013.
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R. Kelly (album) R. Kelly is the second studio album by R&B singer R. Kelly. It was released on November 14, 1995. The album was somewhat of a departure from his previous album's sexual innuendos, featuring slightly more introspective lyrics. "R. Kelly" was the artist's second number 1 R&B album and the first one to top the "Billboard" 200; it spawned three number 1 R&B singles in chronological order: "You Remind Me of Something", "Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)" and "I Can't Sleep Baby (If I)".
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All I Ever Wanted (album) All I Ever Wanted is the fourth studio album by American singer Kelly Clarkson, released on March 6, 2009 by RCA Records. After the controversies that surrounded her previous studio album, "My December" (2007), which was seen as darker than her other two albums, Clarkson went on to record a more pop-oriented album. In order to do so, she enlisted her previous collaborators Max Martin, Dr. Luke, (whom she worked with on her 2004 second album, "Breakaway"), Sam Watters and Louis Biancaniello (whom she worked with on her 2003 debut album "Thankful"), and new collaborators, Ryan Tedder, Howard Benson and Dre & Vidal.
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Trapped in the Closet Chapters 13–22 Trapped in the Closet is a 2007 musical comedy-drama film directed by R. Kelly and Jim Swaffield and written by Kelly based on the song of the same name. Released in August 21, 2007, the film follows protagonist Sylvester, a man who in order not to get caught cheating decides to hide in his affair's closet.
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Robert Mersey Robert David "Bob" Mirsky (April 7, 1917 – December 14, 1994), known as Robert Mersey, was an American musician, arranger and record producer.
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Robert Kelly (comedian) Robert Kelly (born October 8, 1970) is an American comedian and actor. He frequently performs at the Comedy Cellar. He often appeared on "The Opie and Anthony Show" on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and has also appeared on "Last Call with Carson Daly", "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn", and "Premium Blend". In 2003, he was voted the Breakthrough Performer of the Year on CringeHumor.net.
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Big Chips "Big Chips" is a 2004 song by R&B singer R. Kelly and rapper Jay-Z. It was also co-written by the song producers, Poke and Tone and Alexander Mosley. It was released in late 2004 as the only single from "Unfinished Business". It peaked at number 39 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 on November 13.