Alicia Keys (born Alicia J. Augello-Cook on January 25, 1981) is an American R&B musician and film actress who has sold over 25 million albums worldwide as of 2007, and has won numerous awards, including Grammy Awards, Billboard Music Awards, American Music Awards, and NAACP Image Awards.
Birth : January 21, 1981, New York, USA.
Started playing piano at age five.
Attended the Performance Arts School of Manhattan.
Keys signed a demo deal with Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def label, then distributed by Columbia Records. She co-wrote and recorded a song entitled "Dah Dee Dah (Sexy Thing)", which appeared on the soundtrack to the 1997 blockbuster, Men in Black.
Signed to Arista Records in 1998.
Selling over 235,000 copies in its first week (more than 50,000 of those on its first day), Songs in A Minor, released on June 5, 2001, went on to sell over ten million units worldwide, and established Keys' popularity both outside and inside the U.S., where she became the best-selling new artist of 2001 (as well as the best-selling R&B artist).
The album's first single, "Fallin'", gained radio airplay on many different radio formats and spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
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