Best Known As: Television Actor,  Music Performer

Gist:  Kandi Burruss, better known by her stage name Kandi or Kandi Girl, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer and a former singer of the group Xscape from Atlanta, Georgia.

She became a cast member on the second season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Life Facts:  Burruss and ex-boyfriend Russell "Block" Spencer of Block Entertainment had a daughter named Riley on August 22, 2003..

In early 2009, Kandi began a relationship with Ashley "A.J." Jewell and after dating several months, the couple became engaged to be married.

Tensions began to rise between Jewell, also a part of the second season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, and Kandi's mother over Jewell having six children of his own with 4 different mothers. In August of 2009, Burruss and Jewell called off the engagement & later dissolved their romantic relationship completely, though Jewell was quoted as saying they remained "good friends." Though he moved out of Burruss' home, his 12-year-old twin daughters remain in her care.

Less than two months after they separated, Jewell was killed outside of a club's parking lot to a fight on the night of October 2, 2009. He suffered massive head trauma in a heated argument at an Atlanta strip club he co-owned, the Body Tap Club. The police made an arrest - a club employee named Fredrick Richardson. He has been charged with voluntary manslaughter . Due to Jewell's death, Kandi's solo second album B.L.O.G. may be delayed until 2010.