Alicia Keys has been the leader on the Billboard chart music list for the past few months.  Her new single “As I Am” is the reason for her latest success.  Keys, who is only 27 years old, presents a personality full of wisdom.  Her music is filled with her “old soul” style of experience.  The songs that she plays have been said to melt the heart of any person.  The song, “Songs in A Minor”, was the song that first placed her on the charts.  The song was also her debut that she produced under the Clive Davis J Records label.  There are many genres in the song such as R&B, hip-hop, classical, and jazz.

The first day that her album was on the shelves, there were 50,000 copies sold.  The revenue did not end there.  During the week that the album was released, similar statistics were recorded.  Alicia Keys was a mystery to all.  No one had ever heard of her before, and with her jaw dropping first song, many people were eager to know more.  People in Alicia’s life first realized her talent when she was a choir major at the Professional Performance Arts School in Manhattan.  While attending the school, she obtained vocal advice from a teacher.  At age 16, Keys graduated from the school and enrolled in Columbia University.  However, Keys quickly realized that music was still calling her name, and she eventually left Columbia.  In 1998, she was signed with Arista Records.  Clive Davis, the man who helped produce her debut song, was an employee at Arista when she was signed.  He left the company, made his own label, and Alicia followed him, which brings us now to her current success.

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