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R. Kelly
American singer-songwriter and record producer
browse: singers, songwriters, record producers
alive
- born
- 1967
- died
- no date on record
- age
- 59
- known for
- singer, songwriter, record producer
born 1967

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who r. kelly is
Robert Sylvester Kelly, known professionally as R. Kelly, is an American former singer, songwriter, and record producer who is credited with prolific commercial success in contemporary R&B, hip-hop, and pop music recordings. Nicknamed "the King of R&B", "the King of Pop-Soul", and "the Pied Piper of R&B", Billboard has him ranked as the 9th greatest R&B artist of all time. His career ended following his 2021 and 2022 convictions and subsequent 31-year prison sentence for a series of child sex offences.
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wikidata has no date of death on file for R. Kelly, and they’d be 59 today — so as far as the record goes, still here. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
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