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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.

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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
Piano
Needed
Mother
Else
Music
Nothing

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