Between the singer R. Kelly and Sony Music, it's over: the contract that linked the record company RCA (Sony subsidiary) to the singer is over, after a documentary accusing him of multiple sexual assault, reported Friday several media specialized.
"R. Kelly and Sony have decided to separate," said the site Billboard quoting anonymous sources. "Sony Music has decided to end his professional relationship with R. Kelly," released the celebrity site Variety in the wake, also referring to unidentified sources. Contacted by AFP, Sony Music did not immediately confirm the information.
#MuteRKelly. The Chicago singer Robert Sylvester Kelly, whose real name has always denied these accusations, has not made any comment either. But the R & B singer and author of the hit I Believe I Can Fly, who had recently announced a new album, was in an increasingly difficult position in recent months. Calls to boycott had multiplied under the impetus of #MeToo and Time's Up, via the #MuteRKelly slogan on Twitter.
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Sexual slaves. The Swedish online music platform Spotify announced in May to remove the singer from his "playlists". The coup de grace seems to have come from the broadcast in early January on a cable channel of a documentary-river entitled Surviving R. Kelly , in which several women accused the singer and producer of 52 years of having sex with girls under the age of 16, and having surrounded himself with women whom he made his sexual slaves.
The first charges appeared almost 20 years ago. Chicago Attorney Kim Foxx launched a January 8 call for witnesses to investigate the charges. The Atlanta, Georgia, attorney where the singer also has a property, is also investigating him, according to several local media. The first charges against him emerged almost twenty years ago. He was charged in 2002 for filming sexual acts between himself and a 14-year-old girl, but finally acquitted in 2008. One of his alleged victims claimed on Monday that R. Kelly and his team threatened her after she was deported. in May 2018 a lawsuit against the singer. Gloria Allred, the young woman's lawyer and representing two other accusers of R. Kelly, said Monday that the New York police also investigated the musician.