Sharing the day, as she does, with an assortment of random notables such as Dame Janet Baker (91), Princess Margaret, Aubrey Beardsley, Count Basie, Kenny Rogers, Usain Bolt, Kim Cattrall, Peter Weir, Friz Freleng, Patrick Juvet, King William IV, Barry Norman, Joe Strummer and Liam Howlett of the Prodigy, it's the 45th birthday today of Kelis (Rogers)!
Always more successful over here in the UK than she was in her native USA, it all began with this one [which I cannot deny I found irritating when it was first released, but - gulp! - 21 years down the line, it has become a bit of a camp classic, and we still sing it!]:
Surprisingly, there are quite a few other songs in her repertoire that - probably because they were all collaborations - she gets less credit for than she deserves, including these three:
Of all her work, however, this one [from summer 2010] remains my favourite:
Faboo!
