1. Student Name: Tremica George Date: 5/21/10
My Favorite Role Model Researched via:
Student Name: Tremica George
Date: 5/21/10

2. Do you have a Favorite Role Model? Who?
Alicia Keys is my favorite role model !

3. List major accomplishments of Your Favorite Role Model:
Alicia keys is a  Grammy winning artist. Before her music career She received a scholarship to attend Columbia University. In 2001 her album Songs In A Minor sold more than 235,000 copies in its first week and later sales exceeded 10 million units worldwide.  The Diary of Alicia Keys, released in December 2003 sold more than 618,000 copies during the first week of release in the United States. It was certified seven-times platinum, and garnered an additional four Grammy's. 

4. What can we learn from the experience of Your Favorite Role Model?
We can learn how to respect ourselves as young women. She can also inspire us to do good.

5. List hobbies / interests of Your Favorite Role Model:
Plays the piano
Composes her own
Singer

6. Family background of Your favorite role model?
Born and bred in New York's Hell's Kitchen, Keys was strongly influenced by music from all different generations and disciplines including the essential music of Nina Simone, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder; classical compositions of Frederic Chopin, Erik Satie, and Leontyne Price; and urban lyricists such as Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z and the Wu-Tang Clan. Since the age of seven, she received formal training in classical piano and jazz styling of Oscar Peterson, Fats Waller, and Marian McPartland with her instructor Margaret Pine. 

7. What do you or your peers like the most about your favorite role model?
That she is very beautiful and sings very well.