

Keys was by Swizz's side when he went to London to take a paternity test in 2009. He and Tifrere also separated in 2008, finally divorcing in 2010. His third child, daughter Nicole, is with British singer Jahna Sabastian-and he didn't know about her until a year after she was born in 2008. In the meantime, Swizz had a son, Prince Nasir, with Nicole Levy in 2000. He married singer Mashonda Tifrere, the mother of his son Kasseem Jr., in 2004. It was a very slow burn, but it does still burn and it's beautiful." He and I used to hang out and say things like, 'Maybe we'll work together one day.' It's cute that we knew each other when we were 16 but it was not an instant connection. "We first met when we were something like 16-a high-school friend of his ended up being managed by the same people as me. "We were both in the same industry," Keys told the Daily Mail in 2012. Keys married Kasseem Dean-aka prolific record producer and rapper Swizz Beatz-in July 2010 in a small ceremony officiated by Deepak Chopra on the French island of Corsica. When her grandmother got sick, "I realized wasn't an evil person so I said, 'Can we start from this point on? Can we be friends? I can start to understand you and you can start to understand me.'" I was angry then and am sure I had the right to be angry, but if you hold on to all this anger the only person you're hurting is you." He was with Egypt last week and he loved it.I would say in the process of growing up you realize you've been holding on to anger. There's less pressure on the relationship, so maybe it's closer. I think something happens when you become a grandparent. Recently I feel both me and my father have grown up. "Daughters are often closer to their fathers," she reflected to the Daily Mail in 2012.

In 2006, however, after her paternal grandmother, whom she did remain close to, died, she let her father back into her life. Probably, it was better for me this way."

"It made me mad, made me angry," she told The Guardian in 2001. "But it helped show me what a strong woman my mother was, and made me want to be strong like her. Keys' parents split up when she was 2 and, growing up, she didn't have a relationship with her father, Craig Cook, a flight attendant.

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.
