Keys’ debut album, Songs in A Minor, was a commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. Later that year, she released her first live album, Unplugged, which debuted at number one in the United States. Keys made guest appearances on several television series in the following years, beginning with Charmed. Her third studio album, As I Am, was released in the same year and sold six million copies worldwide, earning Keys an additional three Grammy Awards. Keys was born Alicia Augello Cook on January 25, 1981, in the Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan, in New York City, New York. She is the only child of Teresa Augello, a paralegal and part-time actress, and Craig Cook, a flight attendant. in 1985, Keys made an appearance on The Cosby Show at the age of four, where she and a group of girls played the parts of Rudy Huxtable’s sleepover guests in the episode “Slumber Party”. The following year Robinson introduced Keys to her future A&R at Arista Records, Peter Edge, who later described his first impressions to HitQuarters: “I had never met a young R&B artist with that level of musicianship.
Alicia Keys: My Son Egypt Loves to Laugh “He’ll egg you on, so that you’ll start to make him laugh,” says the singer of her 8-month-old baby boy [link]
