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"Anyone who wants to be a singer, Gummi bears," Alicia Keys tells The BoomBox of the secret weapon she relies on to ameliorate her voice. The 30-year-old New York native, whose sultry lyrics touched listeners' ears in June as she celebrated the 10th anniversary of her seminal album, 'Songs in A Minor,' with an intimate performance at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre, invited AOL Sessions into

Alicia Keys wrote her five-time Grammy-winning debut 'Songs in A Minor' at the turn of the century, when she was just 19. "Some people may say I was still a kid, but the city has a way of making you grow up quick," the New York City native notes in 'A Harlem Love Story,' a 10-minute ode-to-uptown music video medley that revisits her breakthrough hits 'Fallin'' and 'A Woman's Worth... Rea

Alicia Keys loves her fam. Even those she's never met before. Just like Lady Gaga has her little monsters and Nicki Minaj claims her legion of Barbz, the R&B chanteuse holds her supporters in a special light, referring to them like kindred. Te...