

Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor."

These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. "In the '80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. "Times Square was dark-gee, it was dismal," Keys told The Guardianin 2016. Family MattersĪlicia Augello-Cook hails from the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, where she was raised by her mother, Teresa Augello, an Italian-American legal secretary and actress who exposed her daughter at an early age to jazz and classical music and had her in piano lessons by the time she was 7. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock 1.
