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вЂњYou walked out the door, you had to be ready to protect yourself,вЂќ she says. And I know for a fact that she influenced a large part of what I became.вЂќ She was a pianist, an arranger, a producer, a composer, and she had so much vocal prowess. Aziza Miller вЂ“ вЂњOne of the most phenomenal women jazz instructors ever to be born. She was tutored by вЂњMiss AzizaвЂ¦вЂќ she says wistfully. Claire Danes and Britney Spears were pupils at one time.

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She started her daughter young: at four, Alicia got a part in The Cosby Show, as one of Rudy HuxtableвЂ™s sleepover guests, and can be seen, small and giggling, riding BillвЂ™s leg like a bucking bronco.ДЄt 12, in 1993, she attended the newly created, publicly funded Professional Performing Arts School, 10 minutes walk from home and just off Broadway. Mum had attended NYUвЂ™s School of the Arts and worked on and off as an actor. Her white, Italian-Irish mother, Terria Augello (now Joseph), raised her alone, working as a legal assistant at the Chadbourne and Parke law firm at the Rockefeller Center from the year before she was born until 2001, when her daughterвЂ™s debut album, Songs in A Minor, was released (it went on to sell 12m copies). Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.вЂќ 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. вЂњIn the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. вЂњTimes Square was dark вЂ“ gee, it was dismal,вЂќ she says. New York wasnвЂ™t like aВ beauty pageant, it was a hard, grimy place, and you had to dress accordingly Alicia Keys moves to the sofa in her socks, pulls her knees up, and begins talking in her soft, low, boyish voice. In the corner is a girl in a headscarf and jeans who looks so unassuming I think itвЂ™s another assistant. Two cameramen swoop around the room, filming the proceedings вЂ“ everyone from BeyoncГ© to Janelle MonГЎe has their own personal film team these days, capturing your interview for their вЂњpersonal archiveвЂќ, or their legal department.

Four shadowy figures sit on high-backed chairs, like guests at a strange, gloomy dinner party. The machinery around the star exists as a shock absorber, and AliciaвЂ™s suite is almost temple-like in its serenity.

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There is an outer layer of nervy young people glued to Samsungs, a middle layer of big characters in bomber jackets who emerge before show time and hand out laminates, and an inner layer вЂ“ KeysвЂ™s confidants and partners in her company, AK Worldwide: longtime manager and co-writer Erika Rose (headscarf and curly haired child in sling), and DJ Walton вЂ“ who is, among many things, a vocal coach and boxing coach with two full sleeves of tattoos. Her complicated management system functions like an onion. She has booked the entire 57th floor of the W hotel to dress for the gig, rest, and do this interview in promotion of Here, her first album in four years.