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I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
Art Collector
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Poet
Presenter
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
Stepped
Control
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He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in.
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