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Chapter 1:

A licia Keys debuted as a honey-faced teen with long braids and slick lyrics. With a lilt in her voice and a tilt in her hips, she romanced listeners with her penchant for “Fallin,’” in and out of love. The record companies might have stuttered, but listeners saw and heard her superstar future. Her initial record company couldn’t hear the hits among her tracks. Columbia executives called her songs for what was to be her first album a “very Career Highlights— Setting Recording Industry Records

Alicia Keys on stage for a Good Morning America concert at the Rockefeller Center, New York City in 2007.

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