Kelly attracts the attention of Chicago-based Jive Records executive Wayne Williams, who overhears him singing at a backyard barbecue on the South Side. I knew I had something then.” Summer 1990: Jive executive discovers Kelly “That night it was like Spiderman being bit,” Kelly later tells Dave Hoekstra of the Sun-Times. Through legendary music teacher Lena McLin, he discovers his true calling when she persuades him to sing Stevie Wonder’s 1982 hit “Ribbon in the Sky” at a high-school talent show. He does not graduate, and years later, he admits that he has difficulty reading and doing math. The troubled youth enters Hyde Park’s prestigious Kenwood Academy High School. September 1980: Kelly enters Kenwood Academy High School He reportedly still carries the bullet in his shoulder. But a close Kelly associate later tells the Sun-Times that his mother Joann said on her deathbed that Robert invented the story of the shooting to cover a suicide attempt. In Soulacoaster, he describes the shooting as a stray bullet that does not cost him his bike. 1980: Kelly shot at age 13Īfter he becomes a star, Kelly often tells the press that he was shot at age 13 when some thugs tried to steal his Huffy bicycle.
Friends and associates later tell The Chicago Sun-Times that Kelly said he was sexually abused by the man. In his autobiography, Kelly writes that starting at age 8, he sometimes watched older men and women having sex that he once was given a Polaroid camera, instructed to photograph a couple having sex, and found that “the photographic technology impressed me more than the sex” that at age 8 he was raped by an older woman, ordered to keep it a secret, and that “she did it repeatedly for years,” and that as a preteen he was approached sexually by an older man in the neighborhood.
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