Star, monster: The R Kelly we didn’t know

This photo from Friday May 9, 2008 shows R Kelly arriving for the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse in Chicago. [AP, File]

It didn’t matter if or if not teen sensation Aaliyah Dana Haughton had copied the chart topping Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number from Bobby Caldwell’s What You Won’t Do for Love.

To her fans, the 1994 release was an angelic obsession. This was a defining moment for the then 15-year-old who had started her music career at 11 before dying in 2001, at the age of 22.