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Because while modern-day R&B love songs are more concerned with bills, bills, bills and beepers, Kelis sings of redemption through love, of space travel through love, of reaching higher planes through love. Their love transcends the badness – a recurring theme on the album. Take for instance the staccato, moody pop gem ‘Get Along With You’, yearning and dreaming like TLC used to do, while the Eastern-tinged ‘Mafia’ is reminiscent of Tricky‘s psychopathic sex vibes, finding Kelis in love with a dude from the dark side. ‘Kaleidoscope’ is a futuristic, visionary, multi-layered work of R&B, funk, soul and rap, furnished with an inspirational, psychedelic spirituality, rarely seen but desperately needed in these cynical times.Īlbum opener ‘Good Stuff’ is a cheeky, catchy-as-hell stomper – as good a debut album statement of intent as you’re likely to hear – while ‘Caught Out There’ still affects after all that airplay, but it’s when you get past these two that the magic of ‘Kaleidoscope’ really begins to take hold. It’s this fresh blend of The Neptunes‘ genius and Kelis’ effortless voice, mature beyond its years, that makes this such a special album. It helps that the producer of Kelis and ‘Kaleidoscope’ are Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, aka The Neptunes – the only serious contenders for Missy Elliott and Timbaland‘s R&B heavyweight championship belt, The ‘Tunes are redefining modern soul/R&B production, blending live musicianship (they play everything themselves) with stripped-down, deceptively simple beats and a skewed use of playground melodies and orchestration. If not, you’ll have heard her rock-hard debut single ‘Caught Out There’ – you know, the crazy girl with the blonde Afro screaming, “I hate you so much right now!/I hate you so much right now!”.

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Kelis embraced dance-pop on her 2010 album Flesh Tone, then collaborated with TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek for 2014’s Food, a more organic-sounding soul album heavy on food imagery.You might have heard 20-year-old, Harlem-bred Kelis on Ol ‘ Dirty Bastard’s anthem to pimping, ‘Got Your Money’, or Puffy‘s homage to himself, ‘PE 2000’.

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She subsequently hosted the Cooking Channel series Saucy and Sweet and published a cookbook, My Life on a Plate.

In 2008, Kelis graduated from Le Cordon Bleu culinary school.

The single went double platinum, and the album earned a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary R&B Album.

Her fourth album, 2006’s Kelis Was Here, includes the single “Bossy,” featuring rapper Too Short.The Neptunes had originally offered the song to Britney Spears. 3 pop hit “Milkshake,” which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Urban/Alternative Performance. Kelis’ steamy third album, 2003’s Tasty, spawned the No.The single “Caught Out There” was a Top 10 R&B hit. The Neptunes produced and wrote the bulk of Kelis’ 1999 debut album, Kaleidoscope.The hitmakers featured the young singer on Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s 1999 single “Got Your Money.”

A friend introduced Kelis to Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, the production duo known as The Neptunes.

She graduated from Manhattan’s acclaimed LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

Kelis Rogers was raised in Harlem her mother was a chef and a fashion designer, while her father was a minister and a jazz musician.

Although she’s best known for the sexy 2000s R&B hits “Milkshake” and “Bossy,” singer, songwriter, and certified chef Kelis has served up a smorgasbord of sounds-including soul, hip-hop, jazz, and dance-over the course of her career.