She is a famous american R&B singer.At the age of 7,Alicia Keys was introduced to the piano.She studied classical music.from  beethoven ,mozart,and the chopin(which was her favorite).She delved into such jazz greats as Marian Mcpartland, Oscar Peterson,and Fals Waller.

The  road  to success wasn't an easy one. Born to a white mom(Terri Augello) and a black dad,(Craig Cools) she grew

 up in Hell's Kitchen,New York."It was a cool spot,but 42nd street then was no heaven.There were prostitutes,pimps,and drug dealers

recalls Alicia.To  cope with the street life ,Alicia turned to piano playing at the age of 7. Alicia Keys attended the professional Arts  High

School and rehearsed with vocal coach Conrad Robinson at the Harlem Police Athletice League Community Center until the age of 16.       During this time, Alicia graduated as her High School valedictorian and was accepted to attend Columbia University. Conrad introduced Alicia Keys to his brother jeff,Alicia's "batman",who began searching for the right label.When she was 14,she wrote her first song "butterflyz"which is featured on her latest album "song in a minor".  Stevie Wonder,Marvin Gaye,Nina Simon,Donny Hathway,were all her inspirations as were Biggie,Tupac,Jay-z,and Wu-Tang.Alicia Keys took all of those different genres of music and made them all into one to create a style of her own.                              No replies - reply   # yum-yum fasho! yeapppppp so.im bored geesh havnt blog here in awhile wellz 2008 wow! as the *new* year came i changed to the max.pwuahaha so letz see you know how i used to write all those ewww poems well NOW i dont.&&nd inono colors are likee the best<3 &&nd i really dont look up to amber no more *tear tear* i mean the memories will still last but...inono i guess its just since she moved to las vegas&has a better life up there[well thats what it seems like]but anys heeelo!yess so did i mention im a s.m.w honor-knignt!well not really knignt but stilll honor- student ahahahaha.ewww i have adventures in math even though i suck at math.butt hey you know this is gayy irene didnt even go to school on friday;most likey because her&her family went somewhere how ignorant;how can she miss school i obiouvsly dont.well really 2 days~but 2 days only unlikee her 15 days!pwauahahah thas bad anys omg/omg/omg/i posted a blog that has nothing to do with the subject but thats who i am[i do those thing]funnay its likee i talk.while you readd lmao!well to get on THE subject yum-yum fasho wow! really///im craving pocky thats basicly what the subject stands for but really on this blog i didnt stay on the subject NOR topic so really i changed///blah blah blah thats all i just felt like blogging because im bored so.peace<3my fingers hurt fromm typeing   No replies - reply   # 0mfg=penguins~a... its werid how people can just seperate from their siblings and friends then change and have a whole,new,diffrent life but doesnt notice it.....people who do that forget about their life in the past and now probley live happily ever after like as if past is then and future is now,most people look to the future to much but what they should focus on is right now,whats happening on earth and the people on earth.......well peace!                                        OMFG imstartingto[LOVE<3]///penguins!                                                                oh-e-well                                                  wayy better than jamalamas                                                             haha,...kat                                                            heyy btw                                                         hit me up on myspace                            No replies - reply   « More Entries » « Blog Archive » « Tags List » Profile radomstefanie @ MindSay Leave a comment View My Full Profile View My Wiki Page RSS Feed Calendar July 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 June 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 May 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Older Recent Visitors July 25th google July 24th google July 23rd google July 21st google July 20th google July 17th google July 16th google July 15th google July 14th google July 12th google July 11th google July 10th candyman654 google July 9th google Spread Firefox