Kelis Rogers-Jones (née Rogers, born August 21, 1979), better known as Kelis, is a Grammy Award-nominated American R&B singer-songwriter and since her debut she has amassed nine top 40 hit singles in the UK as an solo artist and as a featured artist she's amassed six top 40 singles to date.

Kelis was born and raised in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, New York. Her first name, pronounced /kəˈlis/ (she can be heard singing her own name in the song Blindfold me), is a combination of her father's name, Kenneth, and her mother's name, Eveliss. Kenneth is a Jamaican jazz musician, Pentecostal minister, and professor at Wesleyan University. Eveliss is a Chinese-Puerto Rican Read more...