30 Rare Childhood Photos Of World-Famous Celebrities (Part 1)

Alicia Keys

Before the fifteen Grammys and the arenas, Alicia Keys was just a teenager in a backwards cap and oversized headphones, cooking up classics next to a towering rack of analog gear and a Hot 97 calendar. Even sitting in a cramped room with a bottle of lotion on the filing cabinet, she already had the effortless cool of someone about to change R&B forever.