Alicia Keys Education

Alicia Keys has a diploma in Professional Performing Arts School, a public school of Manhattan. She got this diploma when she was sixteen years old. She is accepted at Columbia University, but she never attends the course, preferring to dedicate herself to a musical career. Her musical career begins with the recording of a demo with Jermaine Dupri and her label “I know I know Def”, distributed then from Columbia Records. Moreover, she writes and she records a song from the title it Dah goddesses dah (Sexy thing), then included in 1997 in the sound-track of Men in Black.

The song is the first professional recording of the Keys, but it never does not come distributed as a single and the contract with Columbia Records comes soon melted. However, Alicia Keys comes quickly discovered from one of the most important American producers, Clive Davis, owner of the famous label “J-Records”. Obtained the record contract, she records the songs Rock wit U and Rear view mirror, that they enter in the sound-track of the films Shaft (2000) and dottor Dolittle 2 (2001).

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