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The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
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Harlem
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Alicia J. Augello Cook
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