What is Kelis’ Net Worth?
Kelis is an American singer-songwriter with a net worth of $4 million. She has worked with producers like will.i.am and Pharrell Williams to produce popular tracks like “Milkshake” and “Bossy.” During her career, Kelis sold over six million albums worldwide and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.
Kelis left home at sixteen and signed a deal with Virgin Records four years later. Her debut album “Kaleidoscope” was completed and released within a year, spawning hits like “Caught out There.”
Her second album, “Wanderland,” was released exclusively in Europe, Asia, and Latin America in 2001. It was her third release “Tasty” (2003) via Arista that brought Kelis mainstream success. She has since released several more albums, including “Kelis Was Here” (2006) and “Flesh Tone” (2010).
Kelis was also married to rapper/entrepreneur Nas from 2005 to 2010.
Kelis: Early Life and Education
Kelis was born in New York City in 1979 to a jazz musician and Pentecostal minister father and a fashion designer mother. She is of African American and Chinese-Puerto Rican descent and grew up with three sisters. Kelis often sang in choir at church and learned to play several instruments, including the violin, piano, and saxophone. She attended the Manhattan Country School and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. During high school, Kelis worked as a bartender and sales associate.
Kelis’ Music and Culinary Career
Kelis formed the R&B trio BLU while in high school. After graduating, she landed a record deal with Virgin Records in 1998 and released her debut album, “Kaleidoscope,” in 1999. Her most notable single off the album was “Caught Out There.” Kelis won the BRIT Award for International Breakthrough Act and the NME Award for Best R&B/Soul Act in 2001.
Kelis released her second album, “Wanderland,” in 2001 in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, but not in the United States. She achieved mainstream success in the U.S. with the release of the single “Milkshake” from her third album, “Tasty.” Kelis released her fourth and fifth studio albums, “Kelis Was Here” and “Flesh Tone,” in 2006 and 2010, respectively. She embarked on a 20th anniversary tour for her first album, “Kaleidoscope,” in 2020.
Outside of music, Kelis pursued a career in food. She trained as a part-time saucier and graduated from Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. She wrote a cookbook with Lauren Pesavento in 2006 and debuted a line of sauces called “Feast” in 2013, which she rebranded as “Bounty & Full” in 2015. Kelis had her own cooking series on the Cooking Channel in 2014 called “Saucy & Sweet” and released her first solo cookbook, “My Life on a Plate,” in September of 2015.
Kelis’ Relationships and Family Life
Kelis met rapper Nas at an MTV Video Music Awards party in 2002. They dated for a year, got engaged in 2004, and married in January 2005. However, they filed for divorce in April 2009, citing irreconcilable differences. Kelis was seven months pregnant at the time and gave birth to their son a few months later. She later revealed that the marriage was physically and mentally abusive.
Kelis married photographer Mike Mora in 2014, and they had a son in November 2015. They have been living on a farm outside of Los Angeles since January 2020. Kelis gave birth to their daughter in September 2020.
In September 2021, Mora announced that he was battling advanced stomach cancer.
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