Alicia Keys is an award-winning singer-songwriter with over 40 million albums sold worldwide.
This child prodigy has won numerous awards and was voted one of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time by VH1 in 2010.
If you love Alicia Keys, here are 40 fun facts you shouldn't miss!
Her full name is Alicia Augello Cook.
Alicia is 40 years old. She was born on January 25, 1981 in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York.
At one point, Alicia had considered calling herself "Alicia Wild" by her stage name, but her mother rejected it, saying that she sounded more like a stripper.
Her mother's name is Teresa Augello, a part-time paralegal and actress. Her father, Craig Cook, is a flight attendant.
Alicia's mother is of Italian, English, Scottish and Irish descent. Your father is African American.
She began playing the piano at age 7 and majored in choir at 14. It was at this time that she began to write her own songs.
At the age of 5, she Alicia appeared on an episode of "The Cosby Show" in 1985.
In 1994, Alicia Keys signed a contract with Columbia Records and was also admitted to Columbia University. She also dropped out of college that year to pursue her music career.
Keys' first studio album "Songs in A Minor" in 2001 debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling more than 12 million copies worldwide.
She made her film debut in 2006 as the killer Georgia Sykes in the movie "Smockin 'Aces" alongside the famous rapper Common.
Alicia Keys gave a live music performance during the opening ceremony of the 2016 UEFA Champions League final, the first in the league's history.
Keys made her directorial debut in 2011 with the short film "Project 5," also known as "Five." The movie follows 5 different stories of 5 different women who had breast cancer.
Most of Alicia's song lyrics are often about female empowerment, love, and heartbreak.
At the NAACP Image Awards she received a nomination for "Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture" for her portrayal of June Boatwright in "The Secret Life of Bees."
Alicia is the second female artist to win 5 Grammy Awards in a solo performance in one night at the 2002 Grammy Awards. Lauryn Hill was the first to achieve this feat at the 1999 Grammy Awards.
On July 31, 2010, Alicia Keys married record producer Swizz Beatz in a ceremony on the French island of Corsica.
To raise funds for those affected by Hurricane Katrina, she performed in two concerts, "Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast" and "ReAct Now: Music and Relief."
As an accomplished pianist since the age of 14, Keys integrated this into almost all of her songs. In addition to classical piano, she includes R&B, jazz, and soul in her music.
Alicia Keys is an ambassador and co-founder of a non-profit organization called "Keep a Child Alive" that provides drugs for HIV and AIDS in Africa.
2001's "Songs in A Minor" brought Keys world fame and made her the best-selling new artist of the year.
Keys worked with rapper Kendrick Lamar, producer Pharrell Williams, and film composer Hans Zimmer on the song "It's On Again," which served as the soundtrack for the 2014 film "The Amazing Spider-Man 2."
Keys worked with her husband Beatz to produce a 2009 single "Million Dollar Bill" for Whitney Houston's sixth album "I Look To You."
Anti-smoking activists criticized Alicia Keys when the poster featured the logo of a tobacco company advertising cigarettes. Subsequently, the company withdrew its sponsorship.
Alicia published the first book in a series of children's books on November 11, 2014, titled "Blue Moon: From the Journals of MaMa Mae and Lee Lee."
She gave birth to her first child in Egypt on October 14, 2010 and shortly thereafter recorded a song dedicated to her son called Speechless. In December 2014, she gave birth to her second child, Genesis.
With a #NoMakeup campaign on Twitter, Alicia launched a no makeup campaign explaining that the individuality of women behind these foundations and masks is being lost.
Her single "If I Ain't Got You" stayed on the Billboard Hot R & B / Hip Hop Songs chart for over a year. Keys was the first artist to do this.
After the September 11 attack, Alicia Keys performed the 1973 song "Someday We Will All Be Free" at the television concert "America: A Tribute to Heroes."
Her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, won 3 Grammy Awards at the 2005 Grammy Awards and peaked at No. 31 on the list of the best-selling albums of the decade.
During the celebration
Alicia Keys was announced as one of the ambassadors along with Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, John Leguizamo and Jane Rosenthal as one of the 50th anniversary ambassadors.
or the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment in New York.
After a 2-year hiatus, Keys recorded a chart-topping song 'My Boo' with Usher in 2004, which topped the songs Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R & B / Hip Hop for 6 weeks and 3 weeks respectively.
During the presidential election, Keys recorded a theme song for the president.
she nominated Barack Obama.
For her role as June Boatwright in the 2008 film "The Secret Life of Bees," Alicia learned to play the cello in 4 weeks.
Along with her songwriting partner Kerry Krucial Brothers, Keys opened a recording studio called The Oven Studios on Long Island, New York.
In 2009 she was honored by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers with the Golden Note Award for achieving exceptional professional milestones.
Alicia Keys is, along with Miley Cyrus, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, one of the jurors for the American reality singing competition The Voice for the eleventh season.
Keys appeared in the 2015 second season of the Empire television series under the title "Sinned Against" as pop sensation Skye Summers.
During an interview with Manny Norte on The Norté Show, Alicia Keys revealed that her 5-year-old son Egypt composed and sang an untitled song.
Alicia Keys appeared in just a hoodie and scarf for her single "In Common" photoshoot when she returned from the gym. Photographer Paola Kudrick was impressed and asked her to pose without makeup.
In 2015, Alica and her husband Swizz sold their 25,000-square-foot home because it wasn't big enough for her huge art collection.
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