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| Chris Kelly |
He was 34, according to CNN.
How Kelly died isn't known, and the Fulton County Medical
Examiner's Office said an autopsy is planned for Thursday.
Kelly, together with Chris Smith, shot to stardom in 1992
with "Jump," which spent eight weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100.
The duo opened for Michael Jackson that year on his Dangerous
World Tour.
And their penchant for wearing their clothes backward were,
at least for a time, widely emulated.
Kelly and Smith were 13-year-olds when they were discovered
in 1991 at an Atlanta
mall by producer Jermaine Dupri.
Going by the stage name Mac Daddy (with Smith known as Daddy
Mac), the pair followed up their smash "Jump" with the single
"Warm It Up."
Together, the songs pushed their debut album, "Totally
Krossed Out," to multiplatinum status.
Next came 1993's "Da Bomb." And it did.
The album failed to find the following of the duo's debut, in large part
because the boys had hit puberty and they were marketed with a tougher image.
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