November 1993: His album “12 Play” is released and eventually sells more than 5 million copies. Kelly & Public Announcement debuts “Born Into The ’90s.” Released a year later, the album goes platinum.

Music executive Wayne Williams of Jive Records discovers Kelly singing at a barbecue that summer. Because of money disagreements, that is the last time the group performed. Kelly’s R&B group MGM wins the $100,000 grand prize on the syndicated television talent show, “Big Break,” hosted by Natalie Cole. In the years that follow, he performs in Chicago’s subway stations full time with his Casio keyboard, often pretending he was blind to avoid arrest. I discovered the power you get from being onstage,” he told Newsweek in 1995. “That night it was like Spider-Man being bit. 1984: At age 17, his music teacher places him in a local talent show to perform a version of “Ribbon in the Sky,” a Stevie Wonder song. 1983: At age 16, his mother moves the family from the projects and enrolls her son at the prestigious Kenwood Academy, a Chicago public school. 1979: At age 12, Kelly said, he “experienced a lot of things at a very young age that I don’t know if I was supposed to,” including witnessing older youth rape one of his girlfriends. 1975: At age 8, Kelly begins singing in church. Kelly is third of four children and lives with his family in Chicago’s housing projects. 8, 1967: Robert Sylvester Kelly is born in Chicago to Joann Kelly, a school teacher. Here is a timeline of Kelly’s life, from his early days in Chicago through his rise and fall as an R&B artist: The R&B singer is once again heading to court, this time for a federal trial in New York stemming from years of sexual abuse allegations.

Kelly has long faced allegations of lurid sexual behavior and abuse, some of which have been made public through documentaries or court documents.

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