Is Alicia Keys Italian-American? Is Alicia Keys dad Jamaican?

Alicia Keys is an American singer, songwriter and actress who doubles as a classically trained pianist.

Is Alicia Keys Italian-American?

Alicia Keys was born, Alicia Augello Cook to Teresa Aguello and Craig Cook in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Keys was named after her Puerto Rican godmother.

She is her mother’s only child, who was a paralegal and part-time actress. However, she was one of three children born to her father, who was a flight attendant.

Teresa is of Italian, Irish, and Scottish descent, with her paternal grandparents being immigrants from Sciacca in Sicily and Lamezia Terme, in Calabria.

According to Keys, she is comfortable with her multiracial heritage, because she feels she was able to relate to different cultures.

At the age of two, her father left and she was raised by her mother, with her father not being in her life. Her parents were never in a relationship.

Is Alicia Keys dad Jamaican?

Her father, Craig, is African American.