Kenneth Rogers was a jazz musician and the father of Kelis Rogers. Kenneth’s daughter best known as Kelis, is an American singer-songwriter and chef. She is known for hits including “Caught Out There”, “Good Stuff”, “Get Along with You”, “Milkshake”, “Millionaire”, “Trick Me”, and “In Public”. She has collaborated with several well-known artists.

Kenneth Rogers: Bio Summary

Who Was Kelis’ Father?

Kelis Rogers’ father is the late Kenneth Rogers. Kenneth was born in 1944. He celebrated his birthday once every year but his birthday is unknown. Where he was born is not known as well. He was the son of Jared Rogers and Dessie Rogers. He may have siblings but there isn’t any information about them.

No information regarding Kenneth Rogers’ other relatives, family background, childhood days, and education are available. Kenneth was an African American. He was a jazz musician and Pentecostal minister. He was a former professor at Wesleyan University and one of the directors of Jazzmobile in Harlem. He fell in love with fashion designer Eveliss Rogers.

Eveliss Rogers is a Chinese Puerto Rican. Kenneth and Eveliss Rogers got married and became parents of four girls. One of their daughters is Kelis Rogers. Kelis’ name is a combination of Kenneth and Eveliss’ names. Kelis is the famous one among Kenneth and Eveliss’ children. Kelis was born on August 21, 1979, in New York City, U.S.

Kenneth Rogers and Eveliss Rogers’ daughter Kelis Rogers has been interested in music since her childhood. She was singing in church choirs and even playing the violin, piano, and saxophone as a child. Kenneth and Eveliss had kicked their daughter Kelis (then 16 years old) out of their house for bad behavior.

According to Hollywoodlife, Kelis was kicked out for clashing with her mother. Kelis continued her education at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, forming the R&B trio BLU (Black Ladies United). Before she became a high school graduate, she worked as a bartender and a sales associate at a clothing store.

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Kelis said she “grew up hanging out in jazz clubs, falling asleep there with people stepping over me, because that’s where my parents were, so they just took me. But you look at parents today and they’re like: ‘Oh my God, it’s nap time, I can’t talk to you!’ And it’s all: ‘We can’t go there because we have kids!’ I’m like, did we die when we had kids?”

“And then there’s a disconnect: I’m hypersensitive to the stuff my parents fought for because they weren’t sheltering me from the realities. Now it’s like parents stop everything and shield their kids – from everything! Then they become these adults who have no taste and no concept of what was being fought for before because they weren’t privy to it.”

Today, Kelis is a singer, songwriter, chef, and restaurateur. Kelis has mentioned that “the issue of race has been such a big part of my entire career. It was never something that I struggled with personally. But it was other people’s confusions.” Kelis released her debut studio album Kaleidoscope in 1999.

Kenneth Rogers’s daughter has sold 6 million records worldwide. She debuted her sauce line, Feast, at the Beverly Hills Food & Wine Festival, in 2013. Kelis has described sauces as “what accessories are to a woman’s outfit. Sauce defines where the dish is from and who’s making it…I think everything is better smothered, poured, or dipped.”

Kelis released her first cookbook, My Life on a Plate in 2015. She describes it as “an exploration of tastes and cultures, and my experience as a chef, musician, mother and wife”. She appears in Cooked with Cannabis, a competition cooking series that Netflix launched on April 20, 2020.

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How Did Kelis’ Father Die?

Kelis’ father Kenneth Rogers who lived a private life, passed away in the year 2000. The cause of his death has not been revealed by the family. It is difficult to tell if he was battling an illness that led to his death or not. Nothing is known about where his funeral was held and where he was laid to rest.

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