NEW YORK (NY TIMES) - The racketeering trial of R&B star R. Kelly resumed on Monday (Aug 30) with the testimony of two new accusers, including the first male accuser to take the stand against the singer.

The man, who testified under the pseudonym Louis, told jurors that when he was a 17-year-old aspiring hip-hop artist, Kelly began making sexual advances on him, promising to help his career if he engaged in sex acts.

Until Monday, all of the accusers to testify against Kelly, 54, had been women, mirroring many of the high-profile trials that have been at the center of the Me Too movement. But Louis, like the four women to testify before him, told jurors that he was underage during a sexual encounter with Kelly.

The singer, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, has denied the accusations and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, which include a single count of racketeering and eight counts of violating an interstate anti-sex trafficking law known as the Mann Act.

Louis testified that the singer brought him to his garage and crawled up to him to perform a sex act on him.

"He just told me we had to keep it between me and him," he said. As they continued to meet, Louis said Kelly began to call him a "little brother", told him to refer to him as "Daddy" and recorded their sexual encounters.

He said that he kept seeing Kelly because he "really wanted to make it".

Kelly, who has appeared impassive through most of the trial, seemed to become agitated by Louis' testimony, wiping his head and clutching his mask .

Louis recently pleaded guilty to attempted bribery for offering money to a potential witness against Kelly if she agreed to stop cooperating with the government.

He said he did not want to testify on Monday, but entered an agreement to do so in exchange for the government notifying the judge on his case of his cooperation.

"You have to be truthful according to what the government finds to be truthful?" asked Mr Deveraux L. Cannick, one of Kelly's lawyers, suggesting Louis's accounts had been fabricated or embellished.

A woman named Addie also testified on Monday that when she was 17 years old, Kelly invited her backstage after a performance. She told him that she was underage, she said, and he assaulted her.

The alleged incident happened in September 1994, and just two days earlier, Kelly, who was 27 at the time, married singer Aaliyah, who was 15.

Addie testified that she did not make a police report as she feared that she would be "blacklisted" from the entertainment industry if she did.

"I didn't even know if they would believe me," she said. "I didn't want to be victim-shamed." On cross-examination, Mr Cannick scrutinised the delay in reporting the attack to law enforcement, asking her why she had waited 24 years. She said she had feared additional trauma or being blamed for the attack - but no longer did.

"I'm an adult now," Addie said through tears. "I'm no longer a little girl."