Alicia Keys the American singer, the pianist, the author of songs, the producer and the actress. The owner of eleven awards "Grammy". The universal circulation of its records exceeds 30 million copies.
Alicia Keys was born and has grown in poor area Harlem Manhettena in New York in a family of the assistant of the lawyer and partially actress Terezy Odzhello and pilot Krejga Cook. Mother Alishi of irlandsko-Italian, and the father the Jamaican origin. Alisha Kiz asserts that feels comfortably concerning the roots: «I have grown in New York and, thank God, I never had to pass that You are called insufficiently black, you insufficiently white . I never had to pass through it. Certainly, I have passed through biases and all. But I never had to struggle with these two parts me».
Alicia has started to write music since 14 years. She also was trained at prestigious school of performing arts Professional Performing Arts School at the age of sixteen years of all for three years. Having arrived in the Colombian university, after four weeks Alisha has thrown it for the sake of musical career. She has signed the trial contract with Dzhermejn Djupri and its label So So Def (then part Columbia Records). It has taken part in a writing and song record «Dah Dee Dah (Sexy Thing)» which has appeared in a soundtrack to a blockbuster of 1997 "Men in black". This song became the first professional record for Alishi. Nevertheless, the song hasn't been let out as a single and the contract with Columbia has quickly expired.
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