She escaped to Egypt for several weeks because she "needed to get as far away as possible." She would later name her first son after the country. The year was also sentimental for Keys who lost her grandmother.
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She provided voice for an episode of animated TV series "The Backyardigans" and sang a song for it. It was regarded the highest selling MTV's Unplugged series after Nirvana's 1994 Unplugged version.Īs soon as she was done with the unplugged album, she began working on a full-length studio album in late 2006 and ventured out to acting world. Through this very song, " Unplugged" was sold for more than 1 million copies in the U.S. One of the original scores, "Unbreakable" hit Billboard Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Songs at #1 for 11 weeks. Creating a bridge from the successful albums, Alicia released an "MTV Unplugged" album that includes new arrangements of her hit "A Woman's Worth", covers of legendary hits such as The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" and new materials. She was also mentioned as the singers to perform at the 47th Annual Grammy Award, in which she was handed 8 nominations, including Album of the Year and Best R&B Album for the "Diary of Alicia Keys". Keys was one of the performers to sing "America the Beautiful" at the Super Bowl XXXIX game, held on February 6, 2005, along with 150 students from Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind. Keys also wrote and produced "Impossible," one of the songs in Christina Aguilera's album, " Stripped." She was named one of People Magazine's Breakthrough Stars of 2001 and People Magazine 2002's 50 Most Beautiful People. Keys reached further recognition with her Usher duet, "My Boo", which rode on top of 2004 U.S. This success has led Keys to win the award for Best R'n'B at the 2004 MTV Europe Music Awards. "If I Ain't Got You" single taken from that album was topping charts at #1 in U.S. In the late 2003, Keys released her second album, " Diary of Alicia Keys", which went straight up to the top of the Billboard R&B charts. Despite many critics aimed to her voice as artificially imitating 1970s soul singers, like Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, with hip hop influences that were less original than similar blends from nu soul artists like Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and D'Angelo, Keys was in fact, able to prove herself to be a successful solo singer. This assumption makes Keys one of the most popular artists of the 21st century to have established a large fan-base of "fanatic" fans. Writing her own songs and playing several instruments with technical prowess, Keys was perceived as an original voice singer who deserves two thumbs up at a time the musical marketplace was flooded with pop bands. In 2002, Keys released another single taken from her 1st album, named "A Woman's Worth," which gained relatively equal success to its predecessor.
This first album was commercially a success, with one of its singles entitled "Fallin'" sitting at #1 in U.S. When she was fourteen years old, Keys wrote her first song "Butterflyz" which was included on her debut album " Songs in A Minor", released on August 19, 2001. During which she, at seven years old, had begun playing piano and learned classical music by classy composers like Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin, all of whom are her favorites. Keys has, in fact, shown that she possesses a great interest in music since her very childhood. Making use of her scholarship, Keys briefly attended Columbia University, but then dropped out to pursue career in music.
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Known as a smart student, Alicia successfully graduated as valedictorian from the Professional Performing Arts School, a public high school in Manhattan. She was born to an Afro father named Craig Cook and a Caucasian mother, Terri Augello. Alicia Keys, born Alicia Augello-Cook, in Manhattan, New York City, USA on January 25, 1981, is a popular R&B vocalist and pianist.
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