Happy Birthday, br Alicia Keys!.br Alicia Augello-Cook turns br 42 years old today.br Here are five things br you may not have known br about the singer.br 1. Keys started playing br the piano when she was br 7 years old and wrote her br first song when she was 14.br 2. She originally wanted br Alicia Wilde to be her stage name.br 3. She has won 15 Grammys and was given br half of one that John Mayer split in half.br 4. Her performance of the br National Anthem during br the Super Bowl is one of the br longest renditions ever.br 5. Keys was one of the first br artists to sign with J Records.