She grew up in a troubled family with a father that was a drug addict who later changed after he checked into rehab and started going to church.
Soundtrack Alicia Keys was born in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, to née Teresa M.
An athletic tomboy as a child, she was very close to her brother Tom; at 14 she was.
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Her ancestry is Polish mother and German, English, Irish, and Scottish father.
Lengies was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to a German father and an Egyptian mother.