American singer and TV personality Kelly Rowland rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child. She sold forty million albums and twenty million singles with the group, and more than four million solo albums and eighteen million solo singles. This biography details her childhood strife with an alcoholic and then absent father, life on the edge as a teenage R&B star in Destiny s Child, an ill-fated early solo career and finally finding success on her own, as well as taking centre stage as a judge on X-Factor.