Alicia's full name is Alicia Augello Cook, she was born January 25, 1981 in Hell's Kitchen Manhattan, New York, she is 36 years old. She is a actor, musician and singer Her parents are Teresa Augello and Craig Cook and her father is a flight attendant and he is African American and her mother Teresa Augello her real name is Teresa Joseph and she is a part-time actress and paralegal and she is mixed with Jamaican, Scottish, and Irish. Her parents separated when she was two and she got raised by her mother in a one-bedroomed apartment in Hell's kitchen in a rough neigh neighborhood on the other side of their city and her mother always wanted what was best for her so she let her do what she might think is best at. When she was four she got picked …show more content…
to be on The Cosby Show and her and a group of girls played the roll of Rudy Huxtables from the "Slumber Party". Every since she was seven years old she has been studying classical piano notes and playing composer like Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin and when she turned seven years old she began piano lessons and her mother wanted her to attend Professional Performance Arts School. When she turned twelve she got enrolled in Professional Performance Arts School and did choir, dancing classes, and piano and she began writing songs when she was fourteen years old. Her stage was Alicia Wild intill she changed it to Alicia Keys since she likes the piano. College She got allowed to graduated fours later when she was sixteen from excelled academics.
When she graduated from her school in 1998 she signed a deal with Clive Davis the head of the Arista Records. When she graduated she wanted to focus only on her music as she got accepted to Columbia University on a full scholarship. She got a decision if she wanted to go to Columbia University on scholarship or to sign with Columbia Records and chose her music over her college. She wrote a soundtrack of " Men In Black" and she got attention of how she made the song. She recorded two more songs for her soundtracks and released her song " A Minor" on June 2001 and in 2004 she performed with Beyoncé's and Missy Elliott on the Version Ladies First Tour and got to go to Asia and .Auastralia Also she won Best Female R & B Vocal and Best R & B Albums Performances for the songs " If I Ain't Got You", " You Don't Know My Name" by Duo or the group " My Boo". She also won the Best R & B video in 2004 and in 2005 music …show more content…
awards. Major Accomplishment In 2002 Alicia won a lot of awards for her songs.
She won the Grammy Award for her new artist and song of the year called “Fallin’” and she got 39 nominations and won 22 favorite new artist and ect. In 2011 she also won the Grammy Award for the best Rap song “Empire State Of Mind”. Throughout her career she sold over 18.4 million albums in the U.S and more than 30 million albums around the world. Personal Life She got married to Swizz Beatz July 31, 2010 they met when she was 16 and he was 17 one of her friends introduced her to him and he wanted them to work together and every since them they kinds=a or did like each other. She has two sons Egypt and Genesis. Egypt is 7 years old and was born October 14, 2010 and Genesis is 3 years old and was born December 27, 2014.
Family She is the only child of her mother Teresa Augello and has one half brother named Cole Cook from her father Craig Cook. Cole Cook is a athlete from Carrollton, GA and he ran the NYC Marathon. He is the uncle of Alicia Keys two kids Genesis and Egypt and She is married to Swizz Beatz and has two sons. Egypt was born October 2010 and Genesis was born December 2014, they are Swizz Beats fourth and fifth kids and he also has three other children. Her husbands real name is Kasseem Dean his other name is his stage name he is a hip hop recording and producing artist and creative director and fashion designer. Swizz Beats is a Muslim from Bronx, New York he and Alicia decided to when she has are first baby to male her and there kids converted Muslims. Her kids full names are Egypt Daoud Dean and Genesis Ali Dean. Hobbies Her favorite things to do are to do poetry when she gets bored and to draw and collect music to work on. Her favorite song to listen to is Lil Wayne and his music cause she likes it. Her favorite hobbies are to cook do her music. How Is She Remembered She is remembered as a actor, musician and singer. She is remembered by that because she was known as a great singer as a child and now and as a awesome musician because she played the piano every since she was 7 years old. She also just performed a new album called " Here".
Alice Neel’s painting Suzanne Moss was created in 1962 using oil paint on canvas. As the title suggests, the painting depicts a woman’s portrait. Now resigning in the Chazen Museum in Madison, WI, this portrait of a woman lunging is notable for the emotional intensity it provokes as well as her expressionistic use of brush strokes and color. The scene is set by a woman, presumably Suzanne Moss, dressed in dull back and blues lounging across a seat, staring off to the side, avoiding eye contact with the viewer. The unique style and technique of portraiture captures the woman’s piercing gaze and alludes to the interior emotions of the subject. In Suzanne Moss, Alice Neel uses desultory brush strokes combined with contrast of warm and cool shadows
She is also known to the world as the “Queen of Soul”. She went on tour with her father’s traveling revival and later released her very first recording under the album, Spirituals, when she was 14 years old. Similar to Bessie Smith, Aretha Franklin was signed by Columbia Records. There she released several classics such as, I’ll Keep on Smiling and I Still Can’t Forget. Years later (1966) she signed to Atlantic Records where she recorded I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) and Respect which both sold millions. From the start of her career in 1961 she has had forty three top single and maybe more to come. Having won over eighteen Grammy awards in her career. In 1987, Ms. Franklin was the very first female artist to be inducted the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Grammys awarded her the Legend Award in 1991. In 1994 she was awarded the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award and also received the Kennedy Center Honors. She has been nominated for nine American Music Award winning four out of her nine nominations. Aretha has performed at both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama presidential inaugurations. She has also been awarded different honorary degrees in music. There is no one who could manipulate the same sound that Aretha Franklin had into this new day
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...veral American Music Awards. Ross was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 as part of the Supremes” (Duckett, 2013). In 2007, she was also presented with an award for her hard work, when she received the BET Lifetime Achievement Award. Ross was honored by Michael Jackson in the year of 2009. He titled her as a possible caretaker for his children. The list goes on.
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...o 2). She had become the female artist with the second most Grammys of all time with a whopping eighteen Grammys (bio 1). She has also received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Grammy Living Legend Award (Sony 1). In 1987, Aretha was the first woman ever to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 (Glickman 2). Many years later, in 2005, she received a Presidential Medal of Freedom honor (Sony 1).
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singing career as a backing vocalist for other artists. Her rapping skill caught Lil Wayne's
In late 1999, Alicia followed Clive Davis to his new J Records where she continues to chart her arrival to the music world. Creations now rising out of the studio show signs of both a critical and commercial monster - a deep, melodic, soulful gem of an album that showcases Alicia in all her universal glory. Though most of the album- including the luminous "Fallin'" and the moving "Troubles" - was written and produced by Alicia Keys, the artist collaborates with Jermaine Dupri on "Girlfriend" and with Isaac Hayes on "Rock Wit U" from the Shaft soundtrack. Her debut album, Songs in A Minor, is set for release on J Records in late June.
Alexandra Rose Raisman was born on May 25 1994 in the town of Needham Massachusetts. Aly Raisman's’ parents are Lynn and Rick Raisman. Aly is the oldest of four siblings. Her siblings are Brett, Chloe, and Madison Raisman. According to biography.com started gymnastics when she when she was two years old and her mother put her in mommy and me classes. At the age of ten Aly Raisman raised her bar she began to work with new coaches at a new gym. She worked with Mihai and Slyvie Brestyan at the American Gymnastics Club. At the age of 14 Aly started competing in the elite level.
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Katherine is first introduced to us as a child who is exceedingly smart for her age and is solving problems that even adults would never dream of attempting. Much to her teachers delightment, the screens shows Katharine hard at work, chalk in hand, scribbling away at the blackboard. It is mentioned early on in the movie that Katherine can calculate any numbers you put in front her her, there isn't a problem out there she in incapable of solving. She takes pride in informing people, when they underestimate her, that she was the first Negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. Katherine constantly displays diligence with everything she does and dedicates all her efforts and most of her time towards her job.
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