Kelly Rowland Does the “Other Awards Show”

Posted on November 24th, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Kelly Rowland, News, Seen on the Scene

Posted by Bossip Staff

Kelly Rowland attended and performed at the MTV Africa Music Awards in Nigeria. Poor thang couldn’t get a spot performing at the AMA’s in the U.S. like her Destiny’s Child band-mate, so she had to head all the way back to the motherland. It could always be worse…right?.

More pics of Kelly below.

  • Hannibal

  • D.P

    LOL.. Man Ya’ll Hard On Kelly

  • Oshie

    Poor Kelly.

    Looking like Lil Wayne.

  • lilianasanchez86

    she has no sucess at all but she is lookin good these days. and what song did she preformed? cause i cant remeber any of her songs

  • RiotGirL11

    Until she gets rid of Matthew Knowles, I have no sympathy.

  • Kimberlee

    LMAO.

    Kelly is ‘doing her thing’ in the mothaland cause she sucks as a solo performer. Period.

  • Vee-Like Garfield I hate Mondays:-(

    Damn shame…

  • JOEY B

    she need to just fall back and collect her unemployment

  • This I Know

    So whats wrong with doing an award show in Africa? Quite frankly, I would take the great hip hop scene in West Africa over the corporate, manufactured crap from Jay Z and Lil Wayne anyday.

  • GuyFriday

    @ JOEY B-no u didnt say get her unemployment. LMAO!!!

    Its a shame: Kelly gets no love. Since B’s new cd came out, of course they spent all weekend showing ALL of her videos, starting with Destiny’s Child. Its easy to see how over time, it was a calculated move to give B the most camera-time, do 99% of the singing. Yes B is a star but Kelly has something to offer too. She just didn’t-and doesn’t have a chance so long as she surrounds herself with Matthew Knowles. :-(

  • Tealeaf

    Kelly Fierce is a superstar…

  • Techa

    LMAO @JOEY!…. COLLECT HER UNEMPLOYMENT!?.

  • http://eatingourwaythrula.blogspot.com What2EatNext

    I hope her performance was at least good. I do think other countries often give an ear and an audience to the performers we forget

  • Book Worm

    Not the Africa Music Awards :sad:

  • Jody

    Why y’all gotta disrespect Africa?

  • Kia

    @justvisitin. Your point? Read the comments that follow mine. I guess we are all “on our period”. You are ignorant.

  • Vinandi

    viva the motherland!! I love my continent I am an African loud and proud!

    and thanks Kelly for coming over, we love you!!

    btw- they are more billboards in africa of Kelly advertising Dark ad Lovely than of any other Black American artist! we appreciate her choclate beauty!

  • Pynk (KICK ROCKS WITH THE KICKS YOU ROCK)

    @bb….

    perfectly said..

  • Don’t mind me

    Don’t watch that Boss we are looking after the classy gorgeous Kelly

  • RL

    For many of you who don’t know. This performance is going to be remembered in Africa. Because this was the first EVER MTV AWARDS in Africa.

  • BELLA

    It’s not ALWAYS about America, you know! Kelly made some smart moves. Relocated to the UK where she knows she can do better and can earn her own.

  • c

    Y’all kelly has a great career outside of the US. She is happy, working and doing her thing. The last time i checked the US was not the only place in the world where folks can have a career. Stop thinking so small. Kelly is doing it big all around the world! She looks like she is doing just fine to me…

  • Don’t mind me

    Unit kingdom has a beautiful mixture of music Kelly is appreciated for being the better person and a true lady she is fine where she is and us is not where it’s all happening

  • Ameth

    So what if she performed in Africa?

    So far, professionnaly speaking it’s certainly enhance audience for every single artist to only be known in us than abroad.

    And we all ,without any doubt, know that performing in us is the only way to become a world wide celebrity……

  • Davina

    STOP believing that she has a “career” overseas! People in Europe or Africa pay attention to her because she is a former DC. But she is not selling anything, UK tabloids diss her because she goes to every events in London,she is going to MTV Africa fine but do u think that if she were successful in the US she would have been?? No I don’t think so. No hating but she really needs to fire her manager and come back with a good album and a real marketing staff.

    BTW Obama didn’t put Africa on the map

  • Sleeper

    she was at the awards show collecting an award on behalf of alicia keys, thats sad!

    kelly should be ashamed of herself, i used to feel sorry for her but now i realize she has no ambition and likes to be in the shadow of the knowles family. I would have way too much pride to behave like she does, shame on her.

  • much_luv

    Ms. Davina know-it-all hater thang, I said Obama put Africa on the map “so to speak” which is a fact. Kenya has not gotten so much attention since the introduction of tourism in Mombasa and there has NEVER been a camera feeding into every world television station from these remote behind the moon villages…there was no interest UNTIL OBAMA. So Obama has put Africa on the map “SO TO SPEAK”, especially in todays times. And stop hatin’ on Kelly, your green monster coattail is showing.

  • Davina

    Miss much love.. About Kelly I’m just stating facts I live in France spend a lot of time in London= she is not doing anything overseas.

    How can u say Obama put Africa on the map? Maybe Kenyan if u want but Africa is not a country ( like Palin tought), it’s big continent with its History and different cultures. From Egypt to South Africa. Just because u are ignorant with a little education doesn’t mean Africa doesn’t exist!! SO stop watching FOX NEWS or the others american brain-washed medias and go to the library to get to know more about the world.

  • much_luv

    The entire African continent is celebrating Obama’s election, my dear, not only Americans and Kenyeans. From Egypt all the way down to the tip of South Africa, from Benin all the way across to the Somalian coast. And I don’t live in the US, I live in Europe. You snobby French wannabes are no more educated than anyone else and the Brittish can’t see past their bad accents, I wouldn’t brag about living in London – so many illiterates. Stuff it and admit we did what no other white nation was able to do…YES WE DID!!

  • U Already Know

    U guys are so wrong…Let her go to the motherland if she likes…lol

  • Davina

    Of course the whole african continent is celebrating Obama’s election BUT again as far as I know THIS MAN DID NOT PUT AFRICA on the map. To say such a thing is very disrespectful(l) for a continent which has a long history. Therefore even in Japan people were celebrating this election so it is not about Africa. People have to bear that it will be the President of the USA and only the USA!! Obama is not going to stop the war in Congo or the genocide in Sudan!! YES the US made History I Do Agree. Don’t forget that African Americans have been over there for about 4 centuries. In Europe, immigrants are “new” in comparison.

    The snobby French still the second most powerfull country in Europe, at least we are not using the Russian or Arab princes money to stay on top financially. And French education is way better than in England at least anyone has his chance to go to university it’s like not just a elite with money have the right to get a higher education.

  • JoJo69

    I am not mad at her. I would rather do what she is doing instead of being in this office here in Texas working every day. At least she is able to go to different places and see many different things. Again, I am not mad at her (DO YOUR THING KELLY). I would much rather go all over the world performing and doing what I love.

  • much_luv

    Peace Davina, finally someone with some knowledge to debate with and not just someone spewing rage. I am of African descent and do not by any means intend any disrespect or want to claim the success of Africa as American or that of Obamas. I simply wanted to say that Obama’s win has put Africa (or East Africa, but I would make an even further stretch, because all blacks are not the same unless it is convenient and in this case, it is very convenient) in the spotlight. It has made people of mixed origin like myself (African-American) aware that we are part African. This connection was severed from our conciousness, systematically and deliberately erased from our history, we are, again AFRICAN Ameicans with the continent, AGAIN in sight.

  • http://text-support.com Scooby Dubious

    Worse than Africa? Unlikely.

  • Davina

    Honestly I do understand your point and I’m very proud of what Obama did ( we didn’t sleep at home the day of the election!). This kind of event can only occurs in the US nowadays.Plus I have to admit that African Americans struggled to get where they are not Obama but a lot of blacks are successfull in your country(and not only in showbiz or sports). So currently African Americans are the voice of black people around the world!!!

    Africans have to find their own Obama. We do have connections but our cultures and history are different. It hurts when white French people are completely in love with African Americans whereas they don’t want to vote for a black to be a maire.

    Yeah to much rage on some comments but this website makes me laugh

  • much_luv

    Girl, this site is hilarious…love it (as Kanye said in his blog), some of these folks are a scream!!

  • NATION

    She gotta get in where she can fit in. Y’all stop hating!!! If some people in a little village over in Timbuktoo want to her ass sing, she better go over there and get that money. B/C ain’t nobody checking for the girl in the USA!!! Look at Rihanna, she’s an international superstar. She’s not limited to the USA. Kelly got to eat too. She is not Beyonce’s dependent.

  • CLEEN

    @ DAVINA

    Obama IS Africa’s ‘own Obama’

    His story isnt the story of the average African American male. His ancestry is NOT rooted in slavery. This is the separating factor between Africans and African Americans.

    The story of Obama is not the story of the typical African American male. Its closer to the story of the typical second generation immigrant..which is essentially what he is (being the son of an African immigrant as opposed to the grandson/great grandson of slaves).

    I think that statement was almost ENTIRELY invalid

  • dan

    you guys are foolish for saying that

  • steph

    No wonder they Say Americans are Ignorant….try travelling for a change so u wont be so closed minded.

  • steph

    Kelly is doing more ambassadorial work than Beyonce…go get ur facts before u rubbish a great girl…

  • KOTORICO

    U GUYS ARE LOOSING YOUR RESPECT…

  • Tennar

    blnd fools. u pigs need the light. Kelly is worth more than your entire families put together..

  • Timi

    Blind fools…kelly is worth more than ur entire families put together. HA U DOING

  • Playlist

    If she knew how to fcck for tracks, then this wouldn’t be a problem

  • African

    What many of you ignorant people don’t realise is she probably got paid so much money for just showing love. Ask Jay and B how much they got paid for doing concert in Nigeria(a MIL dollars a piece or close to it). Ask 50 cent and the rest of these artist how much they got paid everytime they show. Then you’ll know why most of this artist enjoy coming over. So please stop belittling the continent of Africa unless you are talking from experience

  • Kia

    @justvisitin. I appreciate the fact that you do not argue that you are ignorant. “Look at how much feeling you write with over” my comment that has nothing to do with you. Do you. I’m already the expert at doing me. Being so worried about me “will never get to the root of your problem”. LOL

  • momo

    Guess what??? there is a whole world of people outside of the US!!! (rolling eyes) … who make music, listen to music, spend money, etc

  • prettyinpink

    The real issue here should be why Kelly looks like she’s been dippin in Serena’s HGH stash in the first picture!

  • Christmas Jones

    @ SLEEPER, YOU HAD ME ROOOOOLOOOLLLLLING….WHY SHAME ON HER? THAT POST WAS FUNNY…

  • Christmas Jones

    @ SLEEPER, YOU HAD ME ROOOOOLOOOLLLLLING….WHY SHAME ON HER? THAT POST WAS FUNNY………

  • L.A. Chic

    LOL@ the “upset” posters

  • Kigali (Black females defend the weave like their new born!!!)

    Actually, I would have gone to the one in NIgeria if I had the choice. Them Nigerians know how to party.

  • deesac

    say what you want but Kelly can get it!!!

  • Rayna

    Actually, I would have gone to the one in NIgeria if I had the choice. Them Nigerians know how to party.

    ——————————————————————————————————

    Yeah and I bet you have to wear a face mask to cover up the stench of unclean underarms. eew

  • Terri

    It doesn’t matter where she performs. At least she’s working and getting paid. Leave her alone.

  • D

    @ Rayna

    Are you speakin from experience, or did you get mixed up typing while stretching your own arms??

    just askin….

  • yvonne

    i agree with Nikki,what’s wrong with the motherland and why do you call them the ‘other awards show’.the problem with black people is you want to associate with Africa but then you still seem to have hang ups about it.there is nothing wrong with africa,you take it as it is. otherwise stay in america..you cant look down on africa like that!c’mon guys, and this is supposed to be a website for black folks in usa?!!!what hypocrites!!!

  • Cain

    Kelly’s doing her thang. I’m actually proud of the girl. She never gave up. Keep doing U and let the people on the sidelines stick to the sidelines

  • locust consort

    Don’t say Obama put Africa on the map. Maybe on your yiny little shealterd map since like some one said you fools are all brainwashed. UP Nigeria! Naija 4ever!

  • locust consort

    Don’t say Obama put Africa on the map. Maybe on your tiny little shealterd map since like some one said you fools are all brainwashed. UP Nigeria! Naija 4ever!

  • locust consort

    Rayna you said it! And I lived in Nigeria for many years.

  • Don’t mind me

    Um the us has to break through to europe to become global and that normally means uk so what are you talking about america is one place theres a whole world out there and it’s not dominating the charts over here any more

  • Don’t mind me

    Um the us has to break through to europe to become global and that normally means uk so what are you talking about america is one place theres a whole world out there and it’s not dominating the charts over here any more don’t be so narrow minded

  • bococalady

    i nominate kelly rowland to play CLEOPATRA JONES in the remake. (if she gets new management.)the lady has talent that should be tapped into.

  • Cocoa Cure

    It does not surprise me thet Kelly has to go overseas to do her thing. Sadly, chocolate colored beauty is no longer recognized in the US. I think black female beauty comes in all shades. Unfortunately, many in our country would disagree. I’m not hating on Alicia, Beyonce or Rihanna. I think they are all beautiful women. I just feel sad for the little brown skinned girls who rarely see their complexion as an imaged of beauty.

  • Whoa!

    This has to be the second most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard. It follows closely on the heels of Soulja Boy’s comment.

  • Lola

    @ERLINA….Totally agree with you. Black- Americans are lucky to have a Kenyan-American in the white house to represent for you. At least he doesn’t have that ignorant, dumb-as-f**k, black-American syndrome.

  • Lola

    @ Erlina..I TOTALLY agree. I’m stil amazed that black-Americans were able to put the guns down for a few hours and vote a Kenyan-American into the white house. Ya he’s black but at least he ain’t “American” black, which means he’s not an ignorant,rapping, former dope dealer, with a 9th grade education, 4 baby-mommas (that he knows of) with a pipe dream to “play ball” one day.

    How’s that for ignorance. lol

    Dumb-ass black-Americans lol

  • Lola

    @ Erlina..I TOTALLY agree. Frankly, I’m stil amazed that black-Americans were able to put the guns down for a few hours and vote a Kenyan-American into the white house. Ya he’s black but at least he ain’t “American” black, which means he’s not an ignorant,rapping, former dope dealer, with a 9th grade education, 4 baby-mommas (that he knows of) with a pipe dream to “play ball” one day.

    How’s that for ignorance. lol

    Dumb-ass black-Americans lol

  • Shi

    As an African, i feel very insulted by your remarks.

  • Gloryus- Nigerian Babe

    Its sad though… a lot of you ignorant black Americans here have not travelled out of your ghettos much less outside your own state in the USA. Kelly has travelled to MANY countries outside the USA. You guys are trashing Nigeria and you havent even been there before. What makes you think you’re better? Just a question.

    I’ll take the African MTV award show which you ignorantly labelled ‘the other award show’ ANYDAY, than one of your ghetto ‘dirty award shows’ where shooting and brawling rules the day.

  • Skylar

    Leave Kelly alone, she has a much better voice than Beyonce but she doesn’t prove it in her live performances.

  • Tsk tsk

    The really telling thing is how some of the non-Americans in our country and otherwise who are reading our forums got all self-righteous and indignant about what was being said about Africa, but then stooped to make racist generalizations about Black Americans. You’re no different than the ones who were dogging you’re people and homeland.

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