CELEBRITY PROFILING #ALICIA_KEYS Alicia Keys was born Alicia Augello Cook to Terri Augello, an Italian-Irish paralegal, and Craig Cook, an African-American flight attendant, in 1981. Her parents split when she was just two, and she was raised by her mum in the tough Hells Kitchen neighbourhood of New York. Singing since she could speak, she started piano lessons aged seven, and within two years was playing Chopin sonatas. Aged 12, Alicia entered New Yorks Professional Performing Arts School to study voice, dance and after her classical piano teacher said he had nothing left to show her jazz piano. In 1996, the aspiring vocalist graduated two years early and first in her class. Despite her youth she was just 16 a scholarship to Columbia University followed, but, with a recording contract already under her belt, she dropped out of school after a month in order to pursue a singing career with Columbia Records. Alicia made appearances on the soundtracks for Men In Black and the remake of Shaft, but it was her first full-fledged release, the soulful Songs In A Minor that took her to the top of the charts in 2001. She filmed her first major movie roles in 2006 alongside Scarlett Johansson in The Nanny Diaries and Ben Affleck in Smokin Aces. She later appeared in The Secret Life of Bees with Queen Latifah and Jennifer Hudson. She is spokeswoman for the charity Keep A Child Alive and has visited Africa regularly to highlight the AIDS endemic. You can request for any celebrity profile you want.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:44:17 +0000
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