User:Kris Kelli

Kris Kelli Is a reggae singer,

She was born in Jamaica on November 07, 1984 and attended St. Peters & Paul Prep School and Hillel Academy.She graduated from the later in 2002. In August 2003 she won a major Karaoke competition at the Hilton Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica. The prizes include, being the opening act for a major stage show which was held 3 days later with acts like; The Stylistics, The Manhattans, The Temptations and Cuba Gooding Snr, amoung others.

It was a week later while performing a Nelly Furtado’s single “Turn off the Lights” at the Morgan’s Harbour Hotel Karaoke in Port Royal that the M.C. announced that Nelly Furtado’s manager Chris Smith was present. Two days later his local partner contacted Kris Kelli and immediately she was in the Studio co-writing and recording her first single “Hide Away”.

2003 was a very active and exciting year for Kris Kelli as she spent the year recording, doing numerous interviews both locally and overseas, doing a Photo shoot in New York City for her Marketing materials, going on tour of the USA (11 States), performing in Canada and at the Irie Jamboree Stage show in New York as well as performing at my first Major show in Jamaica, HOT SHOTS in December of that year. All this set the tone for what was to be an eventful 2004.

The year started with more studio work and two songs that were recorded in January made it to Number 1 on the Italian Reggae singles chart for the months of March 04 and April 04, Uptown Top Rankin and Flip Up. Later that year Kris Kelli had two Number 1 songs along with another Number 1 song in 2005 on the Austrian Reggae singles chart. Kris Kelli continued to write and record more songs while performing on most of the Major Stage Shows that year – Spring Bruk-Out in Negril, SpringFest and SumFest in Montego Bay, Heineken House Party in Runaway Bay, Champions in Action, Teen Splash and Sting to name a few. In May 2006, Pony Canyon Intl. in Japan, heard some of Kris Kelli's songs and expressed an interest. After all the formalities she was flown to Japan in August to meet the Pony Canyon Executives and do Magazines and several Radio interviews as well as the Photo Shoot for her debut Album “MY WORLD” which was released on the 20th September 06.

Kris Kelli visited Japan in December 2006 for a 2 weeks promotional tour in the cities of Tokyo and Osaka as well as doing Interviews related to her Album and photo shoots for several Magazines including a line of winter wear for Woofin and Woofin Girl Magazines.

The year 2007 has started off very hectic with two videos being shot in the first quarter of the year for the Hot single “STEP UP” which is the lead single on her album and “We’re Missing You (The Tribute)” that was recorded after the album was released.

Kris Kelli's third visit to Japan was in April 07, where she signed a Clothing endorsement deal with GLAD NEWS fashions in Tokyo, which has outlets in the USA and London.

She then flew over to Okinawa to perform at the Reggae Festa Concert which is one of the largest Reggae Festival held annually and was the only Jamaican Reggae artiste present at that show.

Kris Kelli has recorded a number of songs for this year including three collaborations one with Ini Komozie for his Album, Peter Morgan of Morgan Heritage and Kid Kurup. She is about to film her third video for the year for the Renaissance single “Sweet Intro”.

Look out for more Kris Kelli in the weeks and months to come.