Alicia Keys

Won the award for Best R'n'B at the 2004 Mtv Europe Music Awards.

Is a honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. (2004)

Says the child she has met that inspired her most is 13-year-old Sydnee Bush, of Savannah, Georgia (as of 2005).

Ranked as #95 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)

Named #65 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).

Ranked #77 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.

Announced that she is engaged to Swizz Beatz, having been in a relationship with him since May 2009, and is also three months pregnant with their first child together (28 May 2010).

Gave birth to her son Egypt Daoud Dean, with husband Swizz Beatz, one month prematurely at St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York (14 October 2010).