American songwriter, singer and musician, as well as a record producer Alicia Keys, was born as Alicia Cook on 25 January 1981, in Manhattan, New York City. Keys’ father is African American and her mother is of Italian, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, which Alicia says enables her to connect with many cultures. Regardless, Alicia is still best known for her debut album “Songs in a Minor” released in 2001, which peaked at #1 on the Billboard 200, has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide, and is ranked #57 on the list of greatest albums of all time compiled by “Entertainment Weekly” magazine.
So just how rich is Alicia Keys? Well, in recent years she earned $637,000 from the sales of her album entitled “Girl on Fire” 2012, while in 2013 Keys added a further $44 million dollars from her “Set the World on Fire” world-wide tour. Unsurprisingly, her net worth as of early 2017 is estimated by authoritative sources to be over $80 million dollars, accumulated in less than 20 years in the music business. Just one of Keys’ assets is known to be a Lotus Evora GTE car valued at $150,000.
Alicia Keys Net Worth $80 Million
Alicia Keys’ attraction to music stems from early childhood, when she started playing piano, and later enrolled in the Professional Performing Arts School. When she was a teenager, Keys signed a contract with the noted label Columbia Records, and although she registered at Columbia University, she soon dropped out to focus on her singing career. Prior to her big break with “Songs in a Minor”, Keys signed with J Records and released several songs, which were actually featured as a part of the soundtracks in such movies as “Dr. Dolittle 2” with Eddie Murphy and “Shaft” with Samuel L Jackson, Busta Rhymes and Christian Bale.
Alicia Keys’ real success started in 2001 with the release of her previously mentioned album, “Songs in a Minor”, which incorporated a variety of styles from hip hop to soul and jazz, and became hugely successful worldwide. Following this, Keys released “The Diary of Alicia Keys” in 2003, a neo soul and R&B album, which did as well on the market as its predecessor, selling more than eight million albums worldwide. Up to date, Alicia has released five studio albums, all of which have been a major commercial success, and have significantly contributed to Keys’ fame, as well as her net worth.
As a consequence of selling more than 35 million albums worldwide, Alicia Keys’ personal achievements include winning Billboard Music Awards, Grammy Awards, NAACP Image Awards, having three multi-platinum albums, and five platinum albums.
In addition to performing on stage, Alicia Keys debuted on television as a child star in 1985 in the popular “The Cosby Show” with Bill Cosby, and since then has appeared in “Saturday Night Live”, “Charmed”, “The Secret Life of Bees” – for which she was nominated for an NAACP Image Award – and “The Proud Family” among other TV projects.
In her personal life, Alicia was in a relationship with Kerry Brothers Jr. from 2006, but began dating rapper Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) in 2008, and they married in 2010 – they have two sons, and reside in New York City.
