Profile – Recording Artist, Dancer, Actress and Model

Born Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American recording artist, dancer, actress, and model. She was one of the richest singers.

Early life and career

Haughton was born on January 16, 1979 in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She was named after a Swahili word meaning “most exalted one.” Aaliyah done her schooling from Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts. She took her voice lessons since her childhood. Also, she started appearing in various television shows (“Star Search”) and performed in various concerts (alongside Gladys Knight) from her early years. At age 12 she signed a contract with Jive Records and Barry Hankerson’s (her uncle) and soon became popular in the year 1994. Aaliyah’s debut album was “Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number”, which was mentored by R. Kelly, introduced by her uncle. Apart from her mentor he was also lead songwriter and producer of her debut album. Her debut album experienced a tremendous success by selling three million copies in the United States. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified her album as double platinum. She had worked with various renowned personalities like Timbaland and Missy Elliott , record producers, for her second album – One in a Million. Her second album also earned great success selling over eight million copies worldwide. The first single released from her second studio album, “If Your Girl Only Knew” topped theBillboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for two weeks. Aaliyah, her third album was released in July 2001 and reached No. 2 on the Billboard album chart. She had 15 #1 Singles Out of 3 Albums.

She graduated in the year 1997. Soon after her graduation, Aaliyah started her acting career. Haughton did her first major movie role in Romeo Must Die opposite martial artist Jet Li in 2000. It was ranked number two at the box office. She also contributed to the film’s soundtrack, “Try Again”. After Romeo Must Die she appeared in Queen of the Damned. Aaliyah with several posthumous releases she earned the nickname “Princess of R&B.”

Personal life

Aaliyah’s parents, Diane and Michael Haughton are African-American and her elder brother is Rashad Haughton. Aaliyah got her middle name Dana from her grandmother. Her mother Diane was a vocalist but gave her singing to raise her children. At the age of 15 she married to her mentor R.Kelly, at that time he was 27. Soon her marriage was annulled by her parents. After such allegations Haughton ended her contract with Jive and signed with Atlantic Records. Aaliyah was inspired by a number of performers like Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Sade, En Vogue, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Prince, Naughty by Nature, Johnny Mathis and Janet Jackson.

She had four tattoos all over her body – The letter “A” on the side of her wrist, an Egyptian Unk in her inner wrist, a music symbol on her ankle and a dove ( as a tribute to her grandmother) on her lower back.

Death

Aaliyah and her boyfriend, Roc-A-Fella co-CEO Damon Dash had plans of getting married but their plan could not get success as Aaliyah’s life was tragically cut short by her death in a plane crash in August 2001. She was returning from Bahamas after shooting a music video. The plane crash happened in Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island, Bahamas soon after the plane take off. Crash took place because of the overloading of the plane reportedly. Along with her various persons like pilot Luis Morales III, hair stylist Eric Forman, Anthony Dodd, security guard Scott Gallin, video producer Douglas Kratz, stylist Christopher Maldonado, and Blackground Records employees Keith Wallace and Gina Smith, were all killed . at her funeral 22 doves were released from the steps of the church, one for each year of her life. She decided to promote her album in more than 22 countries by planning concerts for her last album.

Genres – R&B, pop and hip hop

Awards

The talented aaliyah got 6 nominations and 1 award in all. Aaliyah got her first nomination- MTV Movie award in the year 1999, category Best Movie Song for Doctor Dolittle (1998). She was nominated for the same in 2001 and 2002 also. In 2001, category best female performance and breakthrough female performance both for Romeo Must Die (2000). In 2002 she got nominated in the Best Villian category for Queen of the Damned (2002). She again got nominated for BET award category Best Actress for Romeo Must Die (2000) and Queen of the Damned (2002) in 2001 and 2002 respectively. In year 2003, Aaliyah finally fetched a Chainsaw award for her, although at 2 place, category Best Actress for Queen of the Damned (2002). For the song, “Try Again”, Aaliyah earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocalist.

She also won 2 posthumous awards for Aaliyah at the American Music Awards of 2002; Favorite Female R&B Artist and Favorite R&B/Soul Album .

Assets owned by her

After her death, the Detroit High school from which she gained her education,  has named the Recital Hall after Aaliyah in honor of her memory (original founder was Dr. Denise Davis-Cotton).

Personal quotes

It is dark in my favorite dream. Someone is following me. I don’t know why. I’m scared. Then suddenly I lift off. Far away. How do I feel? As if I am swimming in the air. Free. Weightless. Nobody can reach me. Nobody can touch me. It’s a wonderful feeling. [Source:- interview with "Die Zeit",2001.]

I want people to remember me as a full-on entertainer and a good person. [Source:- "MTV Diary: Aaliyah".]

It’s hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I’m long gone.

[her advice for aspiring artists) Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

Everything is worth it. The hard work, the times when you're tired, the times where you're a bit sad . . . In the end, it's all worth it because it really makes me happy. There's nothing better than loving what you do.

Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.

When I'm long gone, I want to be remembered not just as an actress or singer, but as a full-on entertainer.

[on her inspirations]: Sade. How beautiful is she? I chose her because I idolize her. I’ve always looked up to her. She and I have the same birthday which is January 16th so I feel like she is my soul sister. What I love about Sade is that she stays true to her style no matter what. She can leave us for 8 years and come back and be absolutely mind blowing. And you gotta respect that.

Being female, you’re raised to be a good, sweet girl and not flip out. So I had to give myself permission to be mean and evil. It’s tough. But I’ve always been drawn to the darker side of things.

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The crowned king of R&B, Robert Sylvester Kelly, a.k.a R.Kelly is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. “Bump n Grind” singer is has an estimated net worth of $150 Million. Born in Chicago, Kelly is considered to be one of the most influential figures in R&B scene. He is widely popular for his singles like ” I believe I Can Fly”, ” If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time”, ” Gotham City” & “Your Body’s Callin”. In his career he has worked and recorded together with top stars like Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Usher and many more to name a few.

Early Life And Career

Kelly Grew up in Illinois with three siblings. His father left the family when Kelly was still a toddler, thus Kelly’s mom had to support all the three children by her self. His mother has a lovely voice and Kelly inherited his singing talent from his mom, thus she took him to join the church choir. The second motivation for his love for music came from Kelly’s music teacher in high school, Lena McLin. She has talked Kelly into participating in the school talent show with a Stevie Wonder song “Ribbon in the Sky”. The path that Kelly started that night eventually led him to international fame and boosted R. Kelly net worth to millions of dollars. But this success did not come in a day. Before he earned recognition, Kelly used to sing in the streets and metro stations. His first success touched his feet in 1991, When Kelly along with his two friends appeared in “Big Break”, a popular TV show. Kelly went on to win the grand prize of $100,000. Kelly’s first solo album “12 play” was released in 1993 and yielded the singer’s first Number 1 hit, ” Bump N’ Grind” which stayed a record breaking 12 weeks at number 1 on “Hot R&B Singles” chart. His single hits, ” your Body calling” and “Sex Me” both sold 500,000 copies in United States and were certified Gold by RIAA. Following the success of “12 play” Kelly found himself in big demand as a mixer, producer and writer. “Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number” a popular album was entirely written and produced by Kelly himself. The album peaked at number 18 on the billboard and sold over 3 Million copies in the United States. In 1996, Kelly released one of his most successful singles with “I Believe I Can Fly”, an inspirational song originally released on the soundtrack for the film Space Jam. “I Believe I Can Fly” reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the UK charts for three weeks and won three Grammy Awards in 1998. Rolling Stone magazine named it as the 406th of its top 500 songs of all time. Since the success of Space Jam’s “I Believe I Can Fly”, Kelly gained notoriety for penning songs to popular soundtracks such as Batman & Robin (“Gotham City”) and Life (“Fortunate”). Hits like Chocolate Factory, Happy People/U Saved Me and TP.3 Reloaded added to Kelly’s growing success graph. Kelly released his much awaited album “Black Panties” in 2013.In late 2013, R. Kelly announced with Rap-Up TV that he was planning to release the sequel to the album Black Panties for the summer of 2014.

Legacy

R. Kelly is considered to be one of the most successful R&B artist in the last 25 years. He is one of the best-selling artist in the US with over 40 million albums sold as well as 5th black artist to climb on the top 50 of Rolling Stone magazine. In total Kelly has released over 12 solo studio albums, sold 40 million albums in U.S and over 60 million world wide making him the most successful R&B artist of the 90s. He.He has been named by VIBE the number one musical genius in the past two decades in 2013. Kelly has also produced for the big names likes of Aaliyah, B2K, Changing Faces, Chris Brown, Boo & Gotti and reignited the careers of Ron Isley, The Isley Brothers, Charlie Wilson and more. He has also received 24 Grammy nominations for his own performances, or for work he has produced for other artists, and he’s won three of the awards.

Controversy

All was sailing smooth for Kelly in 90s. the only thing disturbing his track record was the ugly period in the late 90s and early 2000s, when he had brawl at a Lafayette, Louisiana health club, Kelly was placed on a year’s unsupervised probation, after being found guilty of battery. One of the victims, Christopher Mahoney, needed 110 facial stitches. Also that year, 20-year-old Tiffany Hawkins sued Kelly for $10 million and accused him of having sexual relations with her when he was 24 and she 15. Kelly settled the lawsuit in 1998 for $250,000, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. In 2002 a video surfaced showing kelly having sex with an underage girl. later that year Kelly was indicated on 21 counts of having sex with a minor which later reduced to child pornography, seven counts of videotaping the acts, and seven counts of producing child pornography. He finally went to trial in 2008, and at which point he was found not guilty of all charges. Unfortunately, the 6 years between the accusations and the actual trial did a bit of a number on his reputation.  In total kelly paid over $7500000 towards legal battles.

Wealth

R. Kelly fills his bank account with many sources, song producing, singing, and writing being few of them. One of the most successful sale for him was ” i believe i can fly” which he sold for over $20 million. To have kelly perform on any concert in US, he charge minimum fee of $300000, and this amount doubles and at times even triples for any trip outside US. Kelly charges over $700000 to perform in Europe, and over $800000 for Africa.
Kelly’s first house was worth $1.3 million which he later sold for $2.9million. he also owned a gigantic $5million mansion in Chicago, later he lost the 11,140sq feet house to JP Morgan in 2011 for defaulting mortgage payments and sold for $6million in 2013. At present kelly owns a studio worth over $1million and a Publishing house .He prefers luxury automobiles and is the proud owner of the Maybach 62S which cost mind boggling $1 million and has featured in a custom-built Zoragy Sylvester. He also owns a licensed Beretta pistol.

Relationships

Apart from having accused of having series of relationships with minor girls, Kelly’s dating history include name of beautiful girls like Deleon Sheffield, Bianca Darrington, Kim l. Dulaney, Tracy Sampson, Aaliyah, Maxinne Daniels. He got married to Andrea Lee in 1996 hey have three children: Two daughters, Joann (born 1998) and Jaya (born 2000), and a son Robert Jr. (born 2002) In 2009 after 13 years of marriage, the couple divorced. Recently R. Kelly and Lady gaga was pictured in compromising position at a night club. presently R&B king is rumored to be in relationship with Lady Gaga.

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