Kelly Rowland Age, Sisters, Mother, Net Worth

Kelly Rowland Age, Sisters, Mother, Net Worth: Kelendria Trene Rowland is an American singer, actress, and television personality. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of Destiny’s Child, one of the world’s best-selling girl groups of all time.

Kelly Rowland Age, Sisters, Mother, Net Worth
Kelly Rowland Age, Sisters, Mother, Net Worth

 

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Kelly Rowland Age, Sisters, Mother, Net Worth

Name Kelly Rowland
Profession Singer, Actor, Songwriter, Model, Dancer, Television presenter
Date of Birth Feb 11, 1981
Husband Tim Weatherspoon.
Children Titan and Noah
Age 41
Height 1.73 m
Net Worth $25 Million

 

Early Life

Kelly Rowland was born Kelendria Trene Rowland on February 11, 1981, in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the daughter of Christopher Lovett and Doris Rowland Garrison. When she was six years old, her mother left her father, who was an abusive alcoholic and suffering from PTSD. She and her mother, along with her brother Orlando, moved to Houston. In 1995, Rowland moved in with friend and future bandmate Beyonce Knowles and her family.

Personal Life

Rowland and her manager, Tim Weatherspoon, began dating in 2011. She announced their engagement during an appearance on The Queen Latifah Show in 2013. The couple was married in Costa Rica on May 9, 2014. Guests included her former Destiny’s Child crew. In November 2014, Rowland gave birth to their first child, Titan Jewell Weatherspoon.

Philanthropy

Together with the Knowles family, Rowland founded the Survivor Foundation, a charity set up to provide transitional housing arrangements for Hurricane Katrina victims and storm evacuees. They also set up the Knowles-Rowland Center for Youth, Houston’s multi-purpose community outreach facility. Kelly joined other artists in 2006 in ads for the ALDO Fights AIDS campaign. She teamed up with Kanye West and other artists to design a Nike sneaker for an eBay auction, with all proceeds going to the AIDS Awareness. She is an ambassador for MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation, which works to reduce discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. Kelly has since visited Tanzania and Kenya to promote the charity and underwent an HIV test in Africa to bring awareness to the issue.

Career

Kelly Rowland signed her first record deal to kickstart her career with Columbia Records, recording their debut song Killing Time for the film Men in Black. Moreover, she boosted her career as the founder of Destiny’s child. In the year 1998, Destiny’s child came up with No, No, No which helped them bag the Soul Train Lady of the Soul Award three times. Consequently, their second album, The Writing’s on the Wall in the year 1999 went platinum. A song from this album titled Say My Name became their most famous song.

In the year 2002, the singer made her acting debut with The Hughleys followed by Eve and American Dreams. In 2003, she made her movie debut with a supporting role in the film Freddy v/s Jason. Furthermore, she has won over 4 Grammy awards and nominated around fifty times throughout her career. Rowland is a member of various foundations which work for several different social causes. She is the co-founder of the Survival Foundation since the year 1999. In the year 2008 in March, Kelly became a Staying Alive Foundation ambassador, founded in the year 2004 for providing HIV and prevention resources. She is also a part of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

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