10 Things To Know About Alicia Keys
1. She has won 15 Grammy’s
2. Alicia Keys real name is Alicia Augello Cook.
3. She wanted her stage name to be Alicia “Wilde” until her manager convinced her otherwise.
4. She started playing the piano at the age of 7 and wrote her first song at 14 years old.
5. She went to Colombia University but left before graduation to pursue her career in music.
6. Most of the songs from her 2001 album “Song In A Minor” are not actual in A minor
7. In 2010 Keys and her husband Swizz Beats adopted a village in Soweto.
8. In 2016, Keys decided to stop wearing make-up after the #NoMakeUp movement came out.
9. She ran a full marathon, yes full in Athens, Greece in 2006.
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