|
|
 |
|
pamela anderson
|
FindIt-Celebrities (com) is the leading Celebrity website, providing quality information and search services on Celebrities and Celebrity / movie reviews. We feature thousands of Celebrity reviews - from the most popular Celebrities to the least popular to the highly unusual, uncommon and unique, including hundreds of new Celebrities that only recently have been coined or rediscovered. Due to popular demand we created a Celebrity forum which is online community of members discussing Celebrities. Uncover popular variations, nicknames, trends, meanings, derivations, history, and religious significance for each and every name - in short, everything you could think of!! Credit is attributed to researchers and scholars whose works are referenced. In addition, the Celebrities database also features numerous contributions from helpful users all over the world.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Add To Favorites |
|
NAME:
|
Alicia Keys |
|
PROFILE:
|
Name: Alicia Keys
Birth Name: Alicia Augello Cook
Height: 5' 8\"
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: January 25, 1981
Birth Place: Manhattan, New York, USA
Profession: musician, song writer
Education: The Professional Performance Arts School in Manhattan, New York (majored in Choir; graduated in 1997)
Columbia University in New York (did not attend so she could pursue singing professionally)
Father: African American
Mother: Caucasian
Claim to fame: album Songs in A Minor - 2001 (5 Grammy)
Contact: Click here
|
|
GOSSIP:
|
- Is in negotiations to star in the film version of Sue Monk Kidd's book, The Secret Life of Bees. (December 20, 2007)
- Almost named herself Alicia Wild when starting out in the music business - until her mother pointed out it made her sound like a stripper.
- Is donating $20,000 in college aid, but demands the recipients to perform community service in their hometowns. (January 22, 2007)
- Hailed Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand as her ultimate idols for the way they juggled their music with acting. (May 13, 2006)
- Visited a health project she, alongside other celebrities, co-funds in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa. (April 7, 2006)
- Alicia Keys has teamed up with Bono on the song Don't Give Up (Africa), and will donate all proceeds to Keep A Child Alive, which provides medicine to families infected with AIDS and the HIV virus. (December 1, 2005)
- About 300 students at Chicago's Betty Shabazz International Charter School were star-struck during a visit by Keys, who visited the school as part of a program encouraging adults to mentor inner-city youth. (April 4, 2005)
- Received Songwriters Hall of Fame Starlight Award, which honors gifted songwriters who are in the early years of their careers. (2005)
- Fans keep calling her number, but only J.D. Turner, a Georgia man, picks up the phone, because he has the same phone number that Keys references in her love song, Diary. In the song, Keys sings, Oooo baby, if there's anything that you fear/ Come forth and call 489-4608 and I'll be here. (August 11, 2004)
- Beyonce Knowles, Alicia Keys and Missy Elliott will jointly play more than 20 arena concerts in March and April. (February 9, 2004)
- Has been added to the Feb. 8 Grammy Awards telecast. (January 30, 2004)
- Final negotiations are underway for a package trek featuring Beyonce Knowles, Missy Elliott and Alicia Keys. (January 23, 2004)
- Songs by Alicia Keys, R. Kelly, Mariah Carey are banned From 'American Idol' auditions this year. (January 23, 2004)
- Has been added to the lineup of the 2004 Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival, set for January 22 through January 24 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. (January 5, 2004)
- Releases her sophomore album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, Tuesday. (December 2, 2003)
- MORE ALICIA KEYS TRIVIA
|
|
Add To Favorites |
|
|
|