BirthDate: 8/21/1979
BirthPlace: Harlem, New York, USA
Kelis is an American R&B singer–songwriter. Kelis was born and raised in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, New York. Her first name is a Portmanteau of her father's name, Kenneth, and her mother's name, Eveliss. Kenneth is an African American jazz musician, Pentecostal minister, and was a professor at Wesleyan University. Eveliss is a Chinese-Puerto Rican fashion designer who inspired Kelis to pursue her singing career.
As a child, she sang in church choirs and played violin, piano, and saxophone while attending Manhattan Country School, a private school. Kelis left home at age sixteen, but continued her education at age sixteen when she went to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art....
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