protesters positioned themselves in front of Sony Music’s New York City
headquarters on Wednesday to ask the label to drop R. Kelly. [Joshua
Lott/Reuters]
Sony’s RCA Records has reportedly dropped and removed R&B legend R Kelly from the list of artists signed by the company.
Variety News
confirms that the singer’s name was tossed away from RCA Record’s
website on Friday, January 18, 2019. To avoid legal issues, the decision
was silently reached as confirmed by Variety who gathered from a
private source.
There shall be no publication announcing the
development in the future according to the report. The R&B legend
was originally signed to Jive at the start of his career in the 90s and
after the label became part of Sony BMG.
R Kelly’s dismissal from Sony/RCA Records is something critics
promoting the #MuteKelly campaign must have envisioned as one of the
goals of their protest. [EWN]
R Kelly’s last album with RCA was in
2016 when he released a Christmas-themed project. He had planned to
release a new project until the latest incident.
The result of a docuseries “Surviving R Kelly”
where some women revealed in different interviews that the singer
abused them sexually when they were teenagers, have meant strained
relationship with big names like Lady Gaga and Celine Dion.
Both singers have reportedly removed their
songs with the Chicago-born star from music streaming platforms. It is
what protesters supporting the #MuteRKelly campaign would have hoped for.