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Newcastle Upon Tyne Metro Radio Arena Sun May 19 / 13 Find Tickets
Belfast Odyssey Arena Tue May 21 / 13 Find Tickets
Dublin The O2 - Dublin Wed May 22 / 13 Find Tickets
Manchester Manchester Arena Fri May 24 / 13 Find Tickets
Birmingham NIA Academy Sat May 25 / 13 Find Tickets
Nottingham Capital FM Arena Nottingham Tue May 28 / 13 Find Tickets
London The O2 Thu May 30 / 13 Find Tickets
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Frankfurt Festhalle Frankfurt Tue Jun 04 / 13 Find Tickets
Cologne Lanxess Arena Wed Jun 05 / 13 Find Tickets
Amsterdam Ziggo Dome Fri Jun 07 / 13 Find Tickets
Merksem Sportpaleis Sat Jun 08 / 13 Find Tickets
Hamburg O2 World Hamburg Mon Jun 10 / 13 Find Tickets
Zurich Hallenstadion Sat Jun 15 / 13 Find Tickets
Lyon Halle Tony Garnier Tue Jun 18 / 13 Find Tickets
Marseille Le Dome Sat Jun 22 / 13 Find Tickets
Paris Palais Omnisports Mon Jun 24 / 13 Find Tickets
Paris Palais Omnisports Tue Jun 25 / 13 Find Tickets
Macka Maca Kucukciflik Park Tue Jul 02 / 13 Find Tickets
Tel Aviv-Jaffa Nokia Arena Thu Jul 04 / 13 Find Tickets
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Alicia Keys Biography

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Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actress. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records. Keys' debut album, ''Songs in A Minor'', was a commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. She became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for "Fallin'" becoming the second American recording artist to win five Grammys in one night. Her second studio album, ''The Diary of Alicia Keys'', was released in 2003 and was also another success worldwide, selling eight million copies. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005. Later that year, she released her first live album, ''Unplugged'', which debuted at number one in the United States. She became the first female to have an ''MTV Unplugged'' album to debut at number one and the highest since Nirvana in 1994. ''Billboard'' magazine named her the top R&B songs artist of the 2000s decade. In 2010, VH1 included Keys on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. ''Billboard'' magazine placed her number ten on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years. BlackBerry (formerly RIM) named her as its Global Creative Director at the Blackberry 10 Experience event in New York City on January 30, 2013. Keys then opened Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, Louisiana on February 3, 2013, by singing the U.S. National Anthem. At the 55th annual Grammy Awards on February 10, 2013, Keys performed with Maroon 5 singing a duet with their song Daylight and her song Girl on Fire.

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