Alicia Keys

ALICIA KEYS

By Ruth Noemi Paulino

Alicia Keys was born on January 25, 1981, in Manhattan, New York. She is a famous American R&B singer. Biography and Career: At the tender age of 7, Alicia was introduced to the piano. She studied classical music from Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin (which was her favorite) and delved into such jazz greats as Marian McPartland, Oscar Peterson and Fats Waller. The road to success wasn't an easy one. Born to a white mom, Terri Augello, and a black dad, Craig Cook, she grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York. "It was kind of a cool spot, but 42nd Street then was no heaven. Prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers,"
Recalls Keys. To cope with the street life, Alicia turned to piano-playing at the age of 7. Alicia Keys attended the Professional Performing Arts High School and rehearsed.
The Mother’s day
The modern Mother's Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis, as a day to honor mothers and motherhood; especially within the context of families, and family relationships.[1] It is now celebrated on various days, in many parts of the world. Father's Day is a corresponding holiday honoring fathers.
The practice of celebrating a Mother's Day to honor your own mother is a relatively recent tradition, first established in the U.S.A. in the early 20th century. It is distinct from other pagan and Christian traditions honoring motherhood, or from the U.K. holiday, Mothering Sunday, which is also known as Mother's Day and dates back to the 16th century.
Many countries around the world now celebrate a "Mother's Day"; generally this is a recent practice, derived from the U.S. tradition. Exceptions include, for example, the Mothering Sunday in the UK, which predates the U.S. holiday.
It is considered by many, including its founder, as a "Hallmark Holiday", i.e. one with an overwhelming commercial purpose.
CURIOUS THINGS…
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The Coca Tail was originally green, in 1930 the tin of Coca Cola already was invented, and nevertheless it has been many years without being in use since in his beginning it was not inspiring many confidences to drink anything that the people could not see. For many years the habitual package of the refreshment has been the famous glass bottle.
23 % of the failures in the photocopiers in the world are caused by persons who sit down above and the Buttocks are photocopied.

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A major diversity of languages existed in America, when the Spanish came, that in all the nations of the Old World. The most conservative calculations estimate that the number of languages, mutually not intelligible, in North America was fluctuating among five hundred and thousand, and in South America, at least the double.
35 % of the persons, who resort to the personal announcements to find couples, already are married.