Alicia Keys Net Worth Explore Her Wiki, Age, Wight & Height

What is the net worth of Alicia Keys?

$150 Million

Alicia Keys is a singer, songwriter, and actor from the United States with a massive net worth of $150 million who has sold over 90 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling musicians in the world, and she has been crowned the top R&B performer of the 2000s decade by Billboard.

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Alicia Keys Earnings, Career, Wiki, and More

She is expected to have a net worth of around $150 million which she has mainly gained from her successful music career as a singer and songwriter along with her limited acting career. Moreover, her huge number of followers also attracts several brand endorsements and sponsorships. She has been the spokesperson for several brands over the years including Dove, American Express, and VitaminWater.

She began writing songs at the age of 12 and was signed by Columbia Records when she was 15 years old. She then was signed with Arista Records after a falling out with her previous label and released her debut album, Songs in A Minor, with J Records in 2001. The album was a critical and commercial triumph, spawning her first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100, “Fallin”, and selling over 12 million copies worldwide.

Her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys released in 2003, was a critical and commercial success, with hit songs “You Don’t Know My Name”, “If I Ain’t Got You”, and “Diary”, as well as eight million copies sold worldwide.

Unplugged released in 2005 was her first live album, and she was the first woman to have an MTV Unplugged album launch at number one. As I Am (2007), her third album, spawned the number-one song “No One” on the Billboard Hot 100, selling seven million copies worldwide and garnering her three Grammy Awards. She made her film debut in the action movie Smokin’ Aces in 2007. She collaborated with Jack White on “Another Way to Die” the theme song for the James Bond film Quantum of Solace.

Her fourth studio album, The Element of Freedom (2009), debuted at number one in the United Kingdom and went on to sell four million copies worldwide. In 2009, she worked with Jay-Z on “Empire State of Mind”, which went on to become her fourth number-one single in the United States and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.

Girl on Fire released in 2012, her fifth Billboard 200-charting album, featured the hit title single and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. Her second live album named VH1 Storytellers was released in 2013. Here which was released in 2016, her sixth studio album became her seventh US R&B/Hip-Hop chart-topper. The singles “Show Me Love” and “Underdog” was released from her seventh studio album, Alicia in 2020.

Alicia Keys Relationship and Personal Life

Until 2008, she was in a low-profile romantic relationship with Kerry Brothers Jr., a long-time good friend, and partner. She had met him at a cipher in Washington Square Park’s Downtown Village in the early 1990s. For the first four albums, he was also her producer and songwriting collaborator.

Swizz Beatz, a hip-hop artist, and producer, was her subsequent boyfriend. They’ve been friends since they were teenagers, and in May 2010, they announced they were engaged and expecting their first child. In the Johannesburg neighborhood of Illovo, South Africa, they held a Zulu ceremony to bless their newborn child. On July 31, 2010, they married in a private ceremony near the Mediterranean Sea. On October 14, 2010, she gave birth to the couple’s first child, a son named Egypt Daoud Dean. Genesis Ali Dean, the couple’s second child born in 2014, is also a boy.

Alicia Keys Early Life, Family, and Education

She was born in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in January of 1981. Teresa Augello, a paralegal, and part-time actor was her mother, and she is one of three children of Craig Cook, a flight attendant. Her father abandoned her when she was two years old, and she was raised by her mother in Hell’s Kitchen during her formative years. Her parents never had a relationship, she said, and her father was absent from her life.

At the age of 12, she enrolled in the Professional Performing Arts School, where she specialized in the choir and took music, dance, and theater classes. Throughout junior high and high school, she continued to sing, write songs, and perform in musical groups. She became a skilled pianist and began studying jazz at the age of 14.

Interesting Facts About Alicia Keys

• As of December 2021, she has around 22.5 million followers on her Instagram account.
• She is the co-founder and Global Ambassador of Keep a Child Alive which is a non-profit organization that offers medicine, orphan care, and social support to families living with HIV and AIDS in Africa and India.
• She has won various prizes and awards, including 15 Grammy nominations, 17 NAACP Image Awards, 9 Billboard Music Awards, and 7 BET Awards.
• Various media publications have referred to her as the “Queen of R&B”.
• She has twice been named on Time’s list of the 100 most influential people.