![]() His album “12 Play” is released and eventually sells more than 5 million copies. Kelly & Public Announcement debuts “Born Into The '90s.” Album released the following year goes platinum. His R&B group MGM wins $100,000 grand prize on the show “Big Break.” Jive Records executive Wayne Williams discovers Kelly singing at a barbecue. In following years, he performs in subway stations with his keyboard, often feigning blindness to avoid arrest. Performs Stevie Wonder hit “Ribbon in the Sky” in a talent show. Mother moves family from Chicago housing projects and enrolls Kelly in the prestigious Kenwood Academy. Around that time, years of sexual abuse by an adult relative begins, according to his 2012 memoir. Robert Sylvester Kelly born in Chicago as third of four children of schoolteacher Joann Kelly. A jury has now found him guilty of sex trafficking in a federal trial in New York stemming from those allegations. Kelly has long faced and denied allegations of lurid behavior and sex abuse. ![]()
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