Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys (born Alicia J. Augello-Cook on January 25 1981) is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, musician, composer, record producer, and pianist. Keys is a renowned artist who has sold over 25 million albums and singles worldwide and won numerous awards, including nine Grammys, eleven Billboard Music Awards and three American Music Awards.

= Keys was born to an Irish-Italian mother, Terri Augello, and a Jamaican father, Craig Cook¹, in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York, and was raised in poverty in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, also of Manhattan, New York City. In 1985 Keys and a group of other girls won the parts of Rudy Huxtable's sleepover guests in an episode (the episode became the only time Keys wa...