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Controversial R&B singer and producer R Kelly has announced plans to publish an autobiography in 2011.

The 42-year-old star, whose hits include I Believe I Can Fly, Ignition and Gotham City, said that he decided to write the book because he is “tired of being misunderstood”.

Last year, Kelly was acquitted of 14 charges of child pornography following a six-year legal ordeal.

“I will open my heart and reveal the good in my life, as well as all the drama. I want to tell it like it is,” the Chicago-born singer said.

His book will be written in collaboration with celebrity author David Ritz and published by Smiley Books, a company founded by talk show host Tavis Smiley.

Kelly, who also wrote and co-produced the Michael Jackson hit You Are Not Alone, released his ninth studio album Untitled last week.

Meanwhile, Peter Kay’s latest book Saturday Night Peter is expected to be one of the top-selling celebrity memoirs this Christmas.

The volume, which could inspire a new range of funny T-shirts, is the sequel to his first book The Sound of Laughter.