Celebrity Biographies
Alicia Keys
At the age of 7 she was already sitting at the piano and although now she prefers to play it standing up, since then she has not been separated from it. She has demonstrated her musical talent with the five albums that she has on the market. She, as an actress, has begun a constant career that leads her to participate in a title a year, and that she shows that she is good for more than just putting on the soundtrack with her impressive voice.
Alicia Augello-Cook was born on January 25, 1980 in New York. She is an only child and her parents separated from her when she was 2 years old. It is not known if the mother knew how to see the great talent that her daughter had when she was just a girl or if it was rather the result of chance, but the fact is that Alicia began studying piano at the age of 7 at the express request of her mother. . She soon saw that the little girl was given a thousand wonders to music as well as the authentic passion she felt for this art. So she, despite being a girl, continued with her musical studies until she graduated with the best grades from the Professional Performance Arts School in Manhattan at the age of 16. It was then that she was offered the chance to study at Columbia University, but Alicia declined the offer because she was completely devoted to the world of music. And it is that at the age of 14 he had already composed his first song. A task that she would repeat on numerous occasions as well as that of producer, both for her own albums and for other artists such asChristina Aguilera .
If Alicia Augello-Cook spent almost her entire life demonstrating the talent she had, Alicia Keys fared no worse. With her chosen nom de guerre, the artist can boast of having five albums on the market since her debut in 2001, millions of copies sold, as well as countless awards where she highlights a dozen Grammys. Given the meteoric career of this rhythm and blues and soul singer, it’s no surprise that she’s also made her first steps into the world of cinema. The fact is that she debuted as an actress as a child. She was in 1985 in a chapter of the popular television series The Bill Cosby Hour . She did not return to the medium until 2001 when she participated in another chapter of the Charmed series.. In this way, she participated in different series until she made her debut on the big screen with Hot Aces (2006), Joe Carnahan ‘s action film where she plays the murderer Georgia Sykes. She liked the experience and a year later she repeated it in the funny The Nanny Diaries (Diary of a Nanny) where she was the unconditional support of the character played by Scarlett Johansson . She spent another year and she decided to try drama in The Secret Life of Bees . Thanks to her endearing role as honey producer June, she shared acting duties with another prodigious voice on the current scene, Jennifer Hudson .
His debut as the lead in a film has not yet arrived, but given his career it is to be hoped that it will not take long for it to take place. Meanwhile, she continues to be linked to the cinema, not only as an actress but also as an artist. The best example of this facet is the song that she performed together with Jack White for the soundtrack of the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008). His “Another Way to Die” joins the list of songs performed by great artists who have been responsible for the main themes of each Bond title.