Kelly Price was born on 4th April 1973 in New York. She has been a singer since her childhood. She used to sing in church as a toddler. Currently, she is a famous songwriter and a singer in US. She spent her childhood in Far Rockaway. Her father died when she was just 9 years old. Her mother used to work as a musical director in a church. Kelly was known as “Little Mahalia Jackson” due to her voice quality. Her grandfather is a bishop and a pastor in “Church of God in Christ” which is located in Queens. He has also been serving as “Jurisdiction Prelate” for the “First Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Barbados”.
She received her first professional assignation in 1992. It was with George Michael performing at Madison Square Garden. She has been highly dedicated towards her work since beginning. She was seen rehearsing during break while rehearsing for Grammy awards and later she was introduced to Tommy Motolla, Mariah Carrey’s husband and CEO of Sony Columbia. She won her name as a backing vocalist and was seen in various videos of Mariah Carrey. The list of videos include “The Notorious B.I.G.’s”, “Mo Money Mo Problems” and “Fantasy”. She has also been a background vocalist for Aretha Franklin, Faith Evans and R Kelly. Her debut was released in 1998. The album was named as “Soul of a Woman” and it was recorded with “Island Records”. The album contained her first hit single “Friend of Mine”.The album also contained a remix song which featured R Kelly and Ronald Isley. The song was No 1 on US R&B chart. In 2000, the second album was released. It was named as “Mirror Mirror” and recorded under the “Def Jam Records” label. This album contained 2 hit songs “You should’ve told me” and “As we Lay”. The latter one was nominated for Grammy Awards. She was also seen in the movie “Bringing down the house” in the year of 2003. She released a Christmas album in the year of 2001 named as “One Family”. Her 3rd album came out in 2003 and it was named as “Priceless”. Her first Gospel album was released in 2005. This album was recorded live and it was named as “This isWho I am”. It was released under her own label “Ecclectic Sounds Records”. In 2006, she was honored as member of “Sigma Gamma Rho” sorority.
She was married to Jeffrey Rolle in the year of 1992. They have 2 kids together: a son and a daughter. In 2015, there were rumors that she is going to divorce her husband. However, there has been no mention about it in her biography. Her estimated net worth is around $2.5 million. She has contributed to various charity events. Her mother defeated inflammatory breast cancer. That inspired her to be an activist and educate others about the same. She has been nominated for Grammy Awards 6 times during her career. She won “Soul Train Music Award’ in the year 1999.
| Birth Date: | 3 Apr, 1973 |
| Age: | 47 yrs |
| Occupations: | Singer Singer-songwriter |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Queens |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American songwriter, singer |
| Net Worth 2021: | 2.5 million |
