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Alicia Keys is one of the most successful hip hop-oriented vocalists of the millenium. Her real name, Alicia Augello Cook, is not as catchy as her stage name, Alicia Keys. She brought herself up by her bootstraps in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan in New York City. She grew up with a single mother, and she graduated as valedictorian of the Professional Performing Arts School. Clearly, she wanted success so bad at that young age that she was really to succeed in a performing arts school to the point of being the number 1 student. She was even accepted to Columbia University and attended before dropping out to realize her music career.
Her record deals with J Records, Columbia, and Arista Records were already picking up steam before her debut album, Songs in A Minor, sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Everyone knows her famous song Fallin, and she also was a talented actress on her film debut of Smokin' Aces. She was one of the best-selling artists of all time, selling over 30 million albums worldwide and becoming one of the most well-known hip hop vocalists of all time. Her career is still kicking too.
Alicia touches a nerve with so many women because she writes about love, lost love, heartache, female egalitarianism, and incorporates the piano into many of her songs, often with melancholy minor keys. Her songs really strike a cord with female audiences. The root of her music is basically gospel and vintage soul, but there are also other influences there from popular musicians like Prince, Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones, and Stevie Wonder. Keys unofficial nickname is the princess of soul. Some critics accuse her of not having original songs, lacking artistic vision, or not being able to craft something is truly unique. Cliche is the word most often levied against her.
She has been on the following television shows, films, and short programs: The Cosby Show, Charmed, American Dreams, The Proud Family, Sesame Street, The Backyardigans, Cane, Elmo's Christmas Countdown, Dove "Fresh Takes", Smokin' Aces, The Nanny Diaries, The Secret Life of Bees. She is clearly beautiful enough to have been featured on so many television shows and films because she has been rated as one of the sexiest women alive by many magazines. After all of this, however, she is starting a new concert tour called Freedom. The Element of Freedom is her new tour that begins in the Spring on February 28th in Montreal. Doesn't Mean Anything was the title of the first single of her album, and it was released in September. Her Element of Freedom tour will surely be an event to remember. After all, her last album went triple-platinum.
Alicia Keys is also a bigtime philanthropist with her promotion of Keep a Child Alive, which she is the global ambassador of. It is a non-profit organization that she does not make any money for, but she is doing her part to improve the world, and that is a good thing when you have so much fame and talent. It is good to use your talent for the common good of humanity. Alicia Keys is a stunning example of using her talent for the benefit of everyone.