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I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
Art Collector
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Poet
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Singer-Songwriter
Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
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