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Alicia Keys
A product of New York's Professional Performing Arts Center, Alicia Keys'
decision to quit Columbia University and bid to become a musician paid off
handsomely when her 2001 debut album Songs in A Minor topped the US charts
subsequently selling over 12 million copies. Born Alicia Augello Cook on January
25th, 1981 to parents of Afro-American, Italian, and Scottish descent, she
appeared on TV's The Cosby Show at the age of four and developed her soulful
singing style after taking up the piano when she was seven. Initially studying
classical music, she co-wrote a song “Dah Dee Dah”...
