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Alicia Keys: ‘I was supposed to end up a prostitute or addicted to drugs’ – The Guardian
With the release of a new album, the singer picks favourite tracks from her back catalogue and talks about the magic of working with Kanye West, surviving the tough streets of New York and her struggles with self-worth
Musicians can be prone to false modesty or putting their achievements down to whatever spiritual energy is currently in fashion. There is none of that with Alicia Keys. If you put me in a room, I will close the deal, she says, filling her hotel room with infectious CEO energy, all emphatic statements and eye contact. But at the time I was bringing my music into the world, it was not on trend, at all. All the radio stations thought I was a 40-year-old jazz crooner. Meanwhile I was 19 with cornrow…
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