![]() She attended New York's Performance Arts School, graduating early and receiving a scholarship to Columbia (which she ultimately left as her career took off). Overhyped by some as the "savior of Soul music" and unfortunately (and pejoratively) lumped by others with Christina Aguilera and other lesser young female singers, Alicia Keys is a very talented young songwriter, pianist, singer and producer who has effectively bridged old school and new school over her short career, and who has the potential to be an important artist for years to come.īorn into a bi-racial family and raised in New York's "Hell's Kitchen" region by her mother, Keys was exposed to classic jazz music at home during her childhood, and was encouraged toward her musical aspirations. ![]() At times it is almost incomprehensible that Alicia Keys is as young as she is.
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