Teaches Songwriting and Producing
ALICIA KEYS Teaches Songwriting and Producing C Songs in the Key of Alicia The making of a modern-day Renaissance woman he world loves a prodigy. It was obvious to those closest to bums, four No. 1 singles, more than Blaise Pascal, Wolfgang her long before. When Alicia was 42 million records sold worldwide. Mozart, Bobby Fischer— growing up in the notorious Hell’s But to describe Alicia strictly Twe obsess over their minds and Kitchen neighborhood of New York, as a prodigy would do her a dis- gifts with amazement and envy. We her mother—single, fierce—sup- service. The term, while accurate, imagine the headiness that comes plied ample encouragement. By age writes off her career as God-given with making something immensely seven, Alicia had found her muse talent—something anyone could’ve difficult look as easy as breathing. in the piano, the instrument that pulled off had they been born with We wonder what it must be like to would inspire her stage name; soon her same musical inclination. In harbor a deep, relentless, natural tal- she was creating original compo- reality, her tireless work ethic—the ent and how remarkable it must feel sitions, translating emotion into decades she spent becoming a to unleash that talent on the world. lyrical syllables and onto musical better musician, a better performer, To be sure, Alicia Keys (born staffs. Her songs blend R&B, jazz, a better human—was as crucial a Alicia Cook) is deeply, relentlessly, pop, soul, and classical music into component of her meteoric rise.
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