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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
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Alicia J. Augello Cook
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