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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys

Singer-songwriter, pianist

Born 1981 in Hell's Kitchen

Born and raised in NYC Wikipedia

R&B & Soul Pop

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Wikipedia ties Alicia Keys to Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin

On the map at Manhattan Plaza

Manhattan Plaza, Manhattan.

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    Times Square, “Empire State of Mind”

    2009

    NYC Tourism counts Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s “Empire State of Mind” among the iconic hip-hop videos shot in Times Square. Hype Williams’s 2009 video cuts full-color shots of the two performing in Times Square into black-and-white New York, and ends with them on the red steps of the TKTS pavilion, per Wikipedia.

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Also tied to Hell's Kitchen