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I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

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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
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School
Outgrown
Music
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Gossip
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Pressure

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