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Alicia Keys came into the world as Alicia Augello Cook. She grew up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Her mother is Irish-Italian, and her father is Jamaican. Keys began playing the piano at age 7 and learned to play primarily through the works of classical composers. At the age of 14 she wrote her first song, "Butterflyz."
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It's Thursday again, and Alicia Keys still shows no sign of giving up the #1 spot on the Billboard charts! Her smash hit "No One" reigns supreme for the 10th week in a row on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart! The song simultaneously tops the Hot 100 chart for the fifth week in a row! Not only that, but her second single off of As I Am, the emotional ballad "Like You'll Never See Me Again" continues to leap up both charts. MORE
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As a preschooler, Alicia Keys is singled out for her musical ability. "Her teacher, who was very much into the arts, had Alicia singing a song from Cats – at barely 4 years old," her mother Terri Augello, a professional actress, tells Ebony in 2007. Augello gets her daughter a gig on The Cosby Show (left) in March 1985 when she is 5, and enrolls her in gymnastics, piano, and ballet. "Being a single parent raising her in the city, I tried to give her every opportunity, just so she could find out what her muse was," Augello adds.
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In 2003 Keys released her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys. The album quickly reached the same level of success as the first one and was nominated for a Grammy award for Album of the Year, among others, and the song "If I Ain't Got You" was nominated for Song of the Year. The Diary of Alicia Keys eventually won six Grammy Awards total. With her success firmly established, in February of 2005 Keys was asked to sing "America the Beautiful" before the Super Bowl XXXIX in Florida, an honor which the young singer was happy to accept.
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Alicia Keys rocketed to fame at 21 with 2001's Songs in A Minor. Her star status hasn't faded one bit, either, and she's poised to remain one of R&B's most prominent voices for a long, long time.
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In 2005, Alicia Keys recorded an MTV Unplugged series of her performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The CD for that recording was released later that year, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. It gained her 4 Grammy Nominations and won 3 NAACP Image Awards for ‘Outstanding Female Artist’, ‘Outstanding Song’ and ‘Outstanding Music Video’.
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