better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B and neo soul singer-songwriter, pianist and actress, who has sold over 30 million albums worldwide as of 2008,[citation needed] and has won numerous awards, including eleven Grammy Awards, seventeen Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards.
At the 2008 BET awards Keys was the recipient of the Best female R&B artist of the year. Her debut album, "Songs in A Minor" was a worldwide success and received five Grammy Awards in a single night in 2002, a record for female artists, which she shares with Lauryn Hill (1999), Norah Jones (2003), Beyonce (2004), and Amy Winehouse (2008).
Keys made her big-screen debut in early 2007 in the crime film Smokin' Aces, co-starring as an assassin named Georgia Sykes. Keys received much praise from her co-stars in the film. Alicia Keys recently signed a deal as spokesperson with Glacéau's Vitamin Water that is worth more than $25 million.
