1- “She participated in the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, which took place at the Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway, on December 11, 2007, along with other artists”



2- “Her Astrological Sign: Aquarius.”



3- “Keys began receiving classical piano training by age seven”



4- “her mother is of Italian (Agrigento and Sciacca) and either Scottish or Irish descent”



5- “She has known R&B superstar Beyoncé since she was 13.”



6- “She writes and produces all her songs – something that makes her very marketable.”



7- “Keys is the first female artist to have an MTV Unplugged album top the Billboard 200 chart.”



8- “She was born in the Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan, in New York City”



9- “Her father is African American”



10- “Alicia Keys gave a live music performance during the 2016 UEFA Champions League Final’s opening ceremony, the first in the history of the league”



11- “Her music combines elements of R&B, hip-hop, jazz, and classical music. All of these styles influenced her when she was growing up”



12- “Alicia Keys was named one of People Magazine’s “”Breakthrough Stars of 2001″”



13- ” VH1 also included her on their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 100 Greatest Women in Music lists”



14- “Her full name is Alicia Augello Cook”



15- “Her duet “”My Boo”” with Usher became her second number-one single in 2004″



16- “In her first movie role, she played a lesbian assassin in the 2006 film Smokin’ Aces. She took the role because it defied expectations.”



17- “Her mother often worked three jobs to provide for Keys, who, “learned how to survive,” from her mother’s example of tenacity and self-reliance.”



18- “She appeared on the covers of Vibe, Vanity Fair, SevenTeen, and Teen magazines”



19- “In 2004, she released a book of poems and song lyrics called Tears For Water.”



20- “Keys wrote her first song about her departed grandfather on her piano by age 12”



21- “She graduated a performing arts high school at age 16.”



22- “She is good friends with singer John Mayer, and Mariah Carey.”



23- ” Time has named her in their 100 list of most influential people in 2005 and 2017″



24- “Keys gave birth to son Egypt Daoud Dean in October 2010”



25- “in 2014, Fuse ranked her as the thirteenth-most awarded musician of all time”



26- ” She has sold over 65 million records worldwide”



27- “She wrote her first song at the age of 14.”



28- “She wrote and produced “”Impossible””, one of the songs on Christina Aguilera’s album, “”Stripped””.”



29- “She appeared on the TV drama Empire for two episodes in 2015, playing a pop singer named Skye Summers”

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