Thread: are you a fan of R.Kelly's Musical Influences?

Without a doubt, Marvin, Stevie, Barry, and Michael are my Musicial Influences and Teachers. I been growing up with Soul, Classic R&B and other types of good music around my time. R. Kelly has came a long way to witness the inspiration he got from his idols.

I would've never known much about Sam Cooke if it wasn't for being on here. And now Sam Cooke is my second favorite artist. I was also influenced greatly by Kellz in my liking of Marvin Gaye.

because of R. Kelly I started listening to his influences, except MJ who I liked before. Ive become a huge fan of Sam, Stevie etc. like it said in the R in R&B booklet he's the last of the great soulmen, and its easy to see how all these guys are on a whole new level artistically compared to so called Rnb ''singers'' like Chris Brown etc. R carries the torch and its hard not to be a fan of these legends.