alicia keys

     

Alicia J. Augello-Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B, soul an neo soul singer-songwriter, pianist and actress, who has sold over 25 million albums worldwide as of 2007, and has won numerous awards, including eleven Grammy Awards, seventeen Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, and fourteen NAACP Image Awards.

Trivia about alicia keys

  • Deepak Chopra performed the 2010 wedding ceremony of Swizz Beatz & this R&B songstress
  • Before singing her hit "No One", she kicked off the telecast by duetting with Frank Sinatra
  • Born Alicia Augello-Cook, this R&B lass chose her new last name for "the piano... and it can open so many doors"
  • No one but her took home the Female R&B Vocal award at the 50th Grammys
  • "The Diary of" this songstress included "Diary", a haunting duet with Tony! Toni! Tone!
  • She dropped out of Columbia Univ. to sign with Columbia Records & later won a Grammy for "My Boo"
  • As June Boatwright in "The Secret Life of Bees", she didn't play the piano but rather the cello, which she learned for the role