
He used to play basketball in college with Ben Wilson (Late Basketball Player at whose funeral he sang “It’s hard to say goodbye to yesterday”). In 1980, he joined Kenwood Academy in Hyde Park, Chicago. She was swept away with the stream and later found dead downstream. Lulu, his girlfriend, and first musical inspiration, died when he was eight years old by falling in the creek after a fight between him and some older kids over a play area. He was sexually abused by one of the women and was ashamed of discussing this with anyone. He was raised in a house filled with women. When he was eight, he started singing in the church choir. He was raised in Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago in Ida B. His father was not present throughout his life.

He is the son of the single mother, Joanne (who was a singer and died in 1993). He belongs to Chicago, I Click to look into! > Read More. He was born on 8 January 1967 in Hyde Park, Chicago.


Robert Sylvester Kelly is a former Basketball player, songwriter, producer and recording artist.
