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Alicia
Keys (born Alicia J. Augello-Cook on January 25, 1980 or 1981) is
an American R&B, soul, and neo soul singer-songwriter,
pianist, record producer, actress, music video director,
philanthropist, and author who has sold over forty-one million
albums and singles worldwide as of 2007, and has won numerous
awards, including eleven Grammy Awards, eleven Billboard Music
Awards, three American Music Awards, and fourteen NAACP Image
Awards. Since late 2006, Keys worked on her third studio album, As
I Am—whose title was confirmed in a red-carpet interview at the
2007 BET Awards on June 26, released on November 13, 2007. Keys
talked to MTV in early 2007 about the album: "It's coming
together incredibly. I am in love with this album. It's very fresh
and new". Rolling Stone magazine reported in December 2005
that Keys and her long-term songwriting partner Kerry
"Krucial" Brothers would start working seriously on the
album in the later half of 2006. Keys made her big-screen debut in
early 2007 in the crime film Smokin' Aces, co-starring as an
assassin named Georgia Sykes opposite Ben Affleck, Ray Liotta,
Common, Andy Garcia, Taraji P. Henson, Jeremy Piven and Ryan
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