R. Kelly's life, from troubled talent to trafficking trial
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R. Kelly has long faced and denied allegations of lurid behavior and sex abuse. His troubled early years resulted in him facing a federal trial for sex trafficking allegations.
— Jan. 8, 1967: Robert Sylvester Kelly born in Chicago as third of four children of schoolteacher Joann Kelly. Little is known about his father.
— 1975: Kelly begins singing in church. Around that time, years of sexual abuse by an adult relative begins, according to his 2012 memoir.
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