Birth Name: Alicia Augello Cook
Nationality: American
Date: January 25, 1981
Birth Place: Manhattan, New York, USA
Occupation: musician

Facts about Alicia Keys

Kelly Clarkson and Alicia Keys will be among the guest stars on the upcoming season of the NBC series AMERICAN DREAMS set in the mid-1960s – Clarkson will play Brenda Lee and sing Lee's hit Sweet Nothings in the second season premiere and Keys will play Fontella Bass and sing Rescue Me. (July 28, 2003)

Some people celebrate their birthday with a cake, but Alicia Keys celebrated with a plaque recognizing 10 million in sales of her debut disc, Songs in A Minor -- though she turned 22 on Saturday, the crowd of well-wishers in a party hosted by her mentor, J Records founder Clive Davis, sang Happy Birthday to her Wednesday night as she received the plaque from Davis. (February 3, 2003)

Keys and Sean Combs said Saturday the world knew too little about the devastating AIDS pandemic in Africa and promised to work daily to make the reality known -- in South Africa for an MTV concert Saturday that will be part of a World Aids Day television special targeting a global audience of up to two billion people, they said musicians had a special responsibility to talk to young people about HIV /AIDS. (November 25, 2002)

Vanity Fair covergirls Alicia Keys, Jennifer Lopez and Sheryl Crow engaged in all-out diva warfare in order to be best represented on the magazine -- each starlet brought their own hairdresser and make-up team. (October 17, 2002)

A true musical prodigy whose multi-dimensional gifts emerged at age five, the beautiful Alicia has taken modern R&B soul to a whole new level at the tender age of nineteen.

At age 16, her outstanding grades allowed her to finish high school early.

Alicia won four awards at the second annual Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards (2002)

Alicia Keys won five Grammy Awards 2002

Personal quotes
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.