A celebrity rivalry is escalating when Kelis unleashed a series of Instagram rants attacking Beyoncé and Pharrell Williams, calling Beyoncé “disrespectful” and a thief.
Beyoncé was suffering from leaks even before the release of her new Renaissance album. And it all started when one Instagram fan account began circulating details about the music.
What Is Kelis’s Ethnicity?
Kelis is an American singer who has mixed ethnicity. Kenneth, her father, was an African-American jazz pianist and Pentecostal pastor who taught at Wesleyan University.
On the other hand, Eveliss, Kelis’s mother, is a Chinese-Puerto Rican fashion designer who motivated her to pursue a singing career.
Kelis Rogers was born and reared in Manhattan’s Harlem state, in the Frederick Douglass Houses along with her three sisters. Kelis is the third of the four daughters of Mora.
Kelis mentioned in an interview: “Although my mother is half-Chinese and half-Puerto Rican, I consider myself black. My father is a black man.”
Her given name, Kelis, is a mash-up of her parents’ names, Kenneth and Iveliss.
After the influence of her mom, she was admitted to New York’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music, Art, and Performing Arts at the age of 14.
There she learned to play the saxophone and joined the Girls Choir of Harlem. Kelis worked as a backing vocalist on an album track called “Fairytalez,” published by the American hip hop duo Gravediggaz, after graduating from high school in 1997.
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She then began collaborating with music producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, together known as The Neptunes, which led to her signing to Virgin Records in 1998.
Kelis’ debut studio album Kaleidoscope was released on December 7, 1999, by Virgin Records. The album, which was inspired by jazz and disco music from the 1970s, was a critical and commercial success.
It yielded three singles: “Caught Out There,” “Good Stuff,” and “Get Along With You.” The album peaked at number 43 in the United Kingdom and became her first gold-certified record.
Some of the hit lists of Kelis are, Milkshake – Radio Mix, Deal With It, Trick Me – Club Mix, Bounce, 4th of July (Fireworks), Acapella, Biscuits ‘n’ Gravy, and so on.
Meet Kelis’s Children, Knight Jones, Sheperd Mora, And Galilee Mora
Kelis has a total of three children from her two husbands, Nas Jones, and Mike Mora. Kelis gave birth to her first son, Knight with Nas in July 2009.
At the time of his birth, she was already separated from Nas. The couple was fighting for custody of their kid.
Kelis alleged in April 2018 that she had not received “a single penny” in child support from Nas since 2012 and that he was not an active dad.
“He doesn’t participate,” she added. “He turns up when it’s enjoyable when there’s a fantastic photo opportunity. I don’t believe it should be 50/50 just because your sperm was used.”
According to TMZ, the couple decided to share shared physical and legal custody. In court records, the former couple detail which holidays each receives with the child, with Nas receiving him on Father’s Day and Kelis receiving him on Mother’s Day.
They also agreed to alternate having him on birthdays, with his father having custody on even years and his mother having custody on odd years.
Nas also has a 23-year-old daughter, Destiny, with ex-fiance Carmen Bryan(Daily Mail).
Kelis further has two more children from his second husband, Mike Mora. They are Sheperd Mora And Galilee Mora. Shepherd, her second son, was born in November 2015.
She gave birth to a girl called Galilee in September 2020, her second child with Mora and her third overall
Who Was Kelis’s Husband Mike Mora?
Kelis’s husband Mike Mora was a photographer who died in March 2022 because of cancer. Kelis and Mora married in 2014, and they had a boy, and a girl.
Since January 2020, Kelis and Mora have been living on a distant farm in Temecula, California, just outside of Los Angeles, where they have maintained and raised their children on.
Mora revealed on Instagram in late September 2021 that he had stage 4 stomach cancer that had migrated to his lymph nodes in his back.
Mora was diagnosed with gastric adenocarcinoma, or stage 4 stomach cancer, after consulting three experts and undergoing an endoscopic biopsy.
Despite the news, Mora was upbeat about the future and believed that sharing his experience might assist others in similar situations. “I am sharing this after great deliberation. Not because I want others to feel sorry for me or my family.”
“I’m writing this because life is full of unexpected circumstances,” he explained. “I never imagined this could happen to me.” At 36, with three children and a wife who adores me.”
“I want to be able to assist anyone who may, hopefully, go through anything similar. By demonstrating that it is possible to go through.”
He passed away six months after being diagnosed with Stage 4 stomach cancer.
Since her husband’s death, the actress has vanished from social media. She returned to the platform on Wednesday, though, with a 44-second video of ocean waves softly lapping a sun-kissed sandy coastline.
The 42-year-old chose not to put a commentary to the video, allowing the clip to speak for itself, which drew a slew of supportive responses from fans, including singer and TV personality Tamar Braxton and Black-ish actor Yara Shahidi.
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