“A selection of quick and quirky facts about neo-soul singer and pianist, the divine Ms. Keys”
here’s an article I picked up while I was in Canada it’s from the Canadian Newspaper/Magazine, The Province

When Alicia Keys steps onto the stage at GM Place tonight everyone in attendance will be waiting for the same thing: “Fallin’.” The neo-soul singer’s breakout single became one of 2001’s signature songs and carried Keys’ debut album, Songs in A Minor, into the stratosphere. The album’s sales are more than 11 million copies-and-counting and the accolades showered down upon Keys range from Rolling Stone calling her the “Next Queen of Soul Music” to Newsweek proclaiming her ‘the Most Influential Entertainer of the Year” in 2001. Pretty impressive for a 21 year-old who came out of nowhere. But what do we really know about the woman who took home the Grammys for best new artist, song of the year, best female R&B vocal performance, best R&B song and fest [typo for best?] R&B album in 2002? Only that her name would’ve been Lauryn Hill in ’98. Will Keys’ career go the same way or is she the real thing? In preparation of her Vancouver debut, here’s 10 things you [maybe] didn’t know about the divine Ms. Keys: