Post by Tiko Sidora♥ on Jan 14, 2006 20:21:18 GMT -6
Everybody hates Chris, but everybody loves Alicia — at least, that's what UPN hopes. The channel just signed a development deal with Alicia Keys to create a show based on her childhood, as it did with comedian Chris Rock for the hit sitcom "Everybody Hates Chris".
Keys' show wouldn't be a comedy, but rather an hour-long drama, according to UPN. The project would be loosely based on Keys growing up in a multiracial family (her mother is Irish-Italian, and her father is Jamaican). Keys was raised by her mother in New York's Hell's Kitchen after her father left them when she was 2. While her mother had to abandon her own musical career to take a job as a legal secretary to support them, Alicia's was just beginning, starting at age 4 when she sang in her kindergarten's production of "The Wiz." She started weekly classical piano lessons at age 7, later trained with a vocal coach, and enrolled at the Professional Performing Arts School, where she was valedictorian. By 16 she had a major-label deal.
Keys' show wouldn't be a comedy, but rather an hour-long drama, according to UPN. The project would be loosely based on Keys growing up in a multiracial family (her mother is Irish-Italian, and her father is Jamaican). Keys was raised by her mother in New York's Hell's Kitchen after her father left them when she was 2. While her mother had to abandon her own musical career to take a job as a legal secretary to support them, Alicia's was just beginning, starting at age 4 when she sang in her kindergarten's production of "The Wiz." She started weekly classical piano lessons at age 7, later trained with a vocal coach, and enrolled at the Professional Performing Arts School, where she was valedictorian. By 16 she had a major-label deal.