Singer R. Kelly has emergency surgery on tonsil

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CHICAGO (AP) — A spokesman for R. Kelly says the R&B singer is

in the hospital after emergency throat surgery.

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Kelly publicist Allan Mayer said Wednesday that doctors drained an

abscess on one of Kelly’s tonsils on Tuesday and that the singer

will be “laid up indefinitely” at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial

Hospital.

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Mayer says Kelly had been complaining of throat pain recently and

was rushed to the hospital after a throat exam.

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