Alicia J. Augello-Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, pianist and actress. Keys has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and has won numerous awards, including eleven Grammy Awards, seventeen Billboard Music Awards, and three American Music Awards.

Her debut album Songs in A Minor was a worldwide success, selling Read more...

Keys was born in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem, in New York City, New York, the daughter and only child of Teresa "Terria" Augello, a paralegal and part-time actress, and Craig Cook, a flight attendant. Keys' mother is of Irish and Italian descent, and her father is Jamaican. Keys describes herself as comfortable with her biracial heritage : "I grew up in New York, and thank God, I never Read more...