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When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
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Musician
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Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
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Needed
Mother
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Nothing
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