Alicia Keys signed to Columbia Records as a teenager, but the relationship soured when she refused to become someone she wasn’t. A piano prodigy raised on Chopin and Beethoven, Keys wanted to write and produce her own music. Clive Davis helped her negotiate out of the Columbia contract, and he signed Keys to his newly […]
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