“And as a black woman it's so cool to see a reflection and to see people who can do what you really want to do.” Miss Aziza taught her about arrangements, confidence, “about the strength of a woman, and just being who you are. “It was so cool to be able to ingest what she had as a young, aspiring artist who's also playing piano,” Keys recalls. She started attending the Professional Performing Arts School just eight blocks from her home – “so I was always late” – where she found a mentor in “Miss Aziza”, the composer and arranger L Aziza Miller. Keys started studying classical piano at seven at 14, with her teacher unsure what there was left to teach her, she picked up jazz.
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