Talk:Alicia Keys

minor talent, article is too long
This article should be severely trimmed - reeks of fan obsession. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.111.8.107 (talk) 13:39, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * What would you suggest be trimmed? Acalamari 22:37, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I've nothing against AK, but there's an awful lot of fancruft here. That isn't unusual with articles about pop singers, and even reality 'celebrities'. --Ef80 (talk) 20:21, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Basic biographical info
Someone should add a source for her date of birth, since the linked sources do not. I have seen her DOB as 25 Jan 1980, rather than 1981, in a public record and her YOB as 1980 in "Who's Who among African Americans." 25th edition. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012.

Also, her great-grandfather was not in fact from Sciacca but rather from Sambiase, a part of the city of Lamezia Terme in Calabria. Unfortunately the only sources I have for this are primary ones (i.e., actual civil records) so I will not be editing this page yet, but I note that the 2 linked Italian articles contradict one another - one says that her mother's grandparents (plural) were from Sciacca while other says that one of her mother's grandparents was from Calabria (and even correctly identifies the 2 towns that this great-grandmother's parents were from in Calabria) and one was from Sicily (without specifying where). You can't just pick and choose which parts of 2 conflicting sources you want to use! If these are your only sources you should acknowledge the uncertainty. Gmalcolms2 (talk) 06:19, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Black American Music 209
— Assignment last updated by Wesph148 (talk) 17:49, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 27 July 2023
She was born in 1981 not 1980 87.75.168.118 (talk) 08:42, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.  — Paper9oll  (🔔 • 📝)  09:53, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
 * She says or implies 1981 in her memoir More Myself a few times:

--Shivertimbers433 (talk) 00:32, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * "on a spring evening in 1980, I was conceived." - (P1, Ch 2 Beginnings)
 * "TERRI AUGELLO, ALICIA’S MOM - When I got pregnant with Alicia, I was almost thirty and thinking about moving from New York to LA to see what acting opportunities I could get out there. It was 1980. I’d never had a pregnancy, and I called my mother." - (P1, Ch 2 Beginnings)
 * "My father wasn’t there when I was born. On that January evening in 1981, as the city’s temperatures flirted with the freezing mark, Mommy arrived at the hospital already in labor." - (P1, Ch 2 Beginnings)
 * "I am nineteen. In a few months, my first album will drop and my life will suddenly be divided into two distinct halves ... As 2000 draws to a close..." - (First Word)

Alicia Keys antisemitism
Is wikipedia going to include Alicia Keys's antisemitic social media post about hang gliding after the terrorist Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023? Boing55 (talk) 01:04, 2 November 2023 (UTC)