Are Alicia Keys parents still married?

Publish date: 2024-06-17

Alicia Keys is a Grammy-winning American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is well known for her songs such as Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart and Empire State of Mind.

Are Alicia Keys parents still married?

Alicia Keys was born, Alicia Augello Cook to Teresa Aguello and Craig Cook in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. She was named after her Puerto Rican godmother.

Her mother was a paralegal and part-time actress and her father was a flight attendant.

Her parents were never in a relationship. At the age of two, her father left and she was raised by her mother, with her father not being in her life.

In addition, while she was her mother’s only child, she was one of three children born to her father.

Her mother, Teresa is of Italian, Irish, and Scottish descent, with her paternal grandparents being immigrants from Sciacca in Sicily and Lamezia Terme, in Calabria. Her father is African American.

According to Keys, she is comfortable with her multiracial heritage, because she feels she was able to relate to different cultures.

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