Alicia Keys Biography

Biography

Alicia Keys, born Alicia Augello-Cook, in Manhattan, New York City, USA on January 25, 1981 is a popular R&B vocalist and pianist. She was born to an Afro father named Craig Cook and a Caucasian mother, Terri Augello. Known as a smart student, Alicia successfully graduated as valedictorian from the Professional Performing Arts School, a public high school in Manhattan. Made use of her scholarship Keys briefly attended Columbia University, but then dropped out to pursue her music career.

Keys has, in fact, shown to possess a great interest in music since her very childhood. During which she, at her seven years age, had begun playing piano and learned classical music by classy composers, like Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin, all of whom are her favorite composer. Then, when she was fourteen years old, Keys wrote her first song "Butterflyz" which included on her debut album "Songs in A Minor", released on August 19, 2001. This first album was commercially success in marketplace, with one of its singles entitled "Fallin" went #1 in US and #3 in UK that it then also won five Grammy Awards in 2002.

In 2002, Keys released another single taken from her 1st album, named "A ...

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Woman's Worth," which gained success at #7 in US and #18 in UK. Working in music world wasn't so easy anyway, luckily Keys has her mother to give support she needed during her developing career that she finally could through it all very well.

Write her own songs and play several instruments with technical prowess, many people perceive Keys as an original voice singer deserves two thumbs up at a time the musical marketplace was flooded with pop bands that were little more than an attractive front for the creative energies of others. This assumption makes Keys one of the most popular artists of the early years of the 21st century to have established a large fan-base of "fanatic" fans. Despite the many critics aimed to her voice as artificially imitating 1970s soul singers, like Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, with hip hop influences that were less original than similar blends from nu soul artists like Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and D'Angelo, Keys has,in fact, able to prove her self to be a success solo singer.

Appeared to be true that in the late 2003 Keys released her second album, "Diary of Alicia Keys", which went straight up to the ...