• Name: Alicia Keys
  
• Birth Name: Alicia Augello Cook
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: January 25, 1981
  
• Birth Place: Manhattan, New York, USA
  
• Profession: musician
  
• Education: The Professional Performance Arts School in Manhattan, New York (majored in Choir; graduated in 1997)
  
•   : Columbia University in New York (did not attend so she could pursue singing professionally)
  
• Father: African American
  
• Mother: Caucasian
  
• Claim to fame: album Songs in A Minor - 2001 (5 Grammy)
  

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• "I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip."
• "No matter what circumstances you are in, there's those things that always affect you, that always happen to you no matter who you are. You could be dead broke, you could be rich."
• On the title of her debut album: "A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes."
• On the use of women, sex, and sleaze in today's rap/hip=hop videos: "Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad."

• MTV Europe Awards: Best R&B (2004)
• MTV Video Music Awards: Best R&B Video; If I Ain't Got You (2004)
• NAACP's Image award: best female artist (2004)
• Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards: 4 awards (2002)
• Grammy: 5 awards (2002)

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