Charlotte Kelly is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 and dance

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 singer and songwriter. She is of mixed English/Caribbean descent.

Career

Kelly was blind

Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...

 at birth. Kelly started her career as a singer in her teens. In the 1990s, she co-wrote with Mike Ward and Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield

Lisa Stansfield is an English singer and songwriter.-Early years:Stansfield was born to Marion and Keith Stansfield in Heywood, Lancashire, in England, where she attended Redbrook School, Rochdale. Her first television appearance was on a talent programme in the Granada TV area in 1982...

, before being signed to Big Life Records and joining Soul II Soul

Soul II Soul

Soul II Soul are a British group that was created in London in 1988. They are best known for their 1989 UK chart-topper and U.S. Top 5 hit, "Back to Life ".-Career:...

. In 1999, she topped the US Billboard dance chart with her single, "Skin".
In 2010 Charlotte co-wrote the topline to UK number 1 single "Good Times

Good Times (Roll Deep song)

-Chart performance:"Good Times" first debuted on the Irish Singles Chart on 29 April 2010 at number 42. The following week the single rose 11 places to number 31...

", performed by Roll Deep

Roll Deep

Roll Deep are an Urban Music Awards-winning London-based grime music collective. They were founded in 2002, by a group of MCs including Wiley. Roll Deep were also closely associated with Boy Better Know with members in both. Their debut album, In at the Deep End, was released in June 2005...

. This earned Charlotte her first UK number 1.

Charlotte is currently managed by Ben Wynter

Ben Wynter

Ben Wynter is a UK based talent manager, consultant, and record executive. He has worked with artists including Destiny's Child, Nas, Mariah Carey, Rhian Benson. He is currently the M.D...

 at UBC Global Entertainment.

Awards

• 2004 - Winner, R&B, USA Songwriting Competition
• 2006 - Winner, R&B, UK Songwriting Contest
• 2006 - Runner-up, Pop, UK Songwriting Contest
• 2006 - Winner, Best UK Female Artist, United Nations Music Aid Awards
• 2006 - Winner, Best UK Songwriter, United Nations Music Aid Awards
• 2007 - Winner, R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap, Unisong International Song Contest
• 2009 - Winner, Best Female Solo Artist, United Nations Music Aid Awards

See also

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart