# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-kelly
# Generated: 2026-09-01T02:52:26.560Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-kelly"
name: "R. Kelly"
slug: "r-kelly"
description: "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 sentence for a series of child sex offences."
tagline: "American singer, songwriter, record producer, sex offender"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/R._Kelly_mug_shot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1967-01-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           64.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           29.14092533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rkelly"
    handle:    "rkelly"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/rkelly/"
    handle:    "rkelly"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkln_Dk0Ej9N5yudDTHDwxw"
    handle:    "UCkln_Dk0Ej9N5yudDTHDwxw"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/Rkelly"
    handle:    "Rkelly"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005084/"
    handle:    "nm0005084"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/2mxe0TnaNL039ysAj51xPQ"
    handle:    "2mxe0TnaNL039ysAj51xPQ"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://r-kelly.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ace.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "أر كيلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "آر كيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1._%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "آر. کلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8"
    title: "Ар Кели"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%D8%A7%DA%95_%DA%A9%DB%8E%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "ئاڕ کێلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1._%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "آر. کلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Kelly"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c2d25856-a09a-4d15-b404-77dd19c19e63"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273055"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/94158"
    title: "R. Kelly"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump