Teresa M. Augello was born on May 8th 1950 in Detroit, Michigan. She has performed on stage, in independent films, and television projects. Her father, Joseph L. Augello a.k.a. “Little Joe” was both a DJ and News Director at Radio Station WOHO and while in Detroit, was an actor on the well-known “Lone Ranger” and “Green Hornet” series. Ms. Joseph is a member-in-good-standing of Screen Actors Guild and the Actors Equity Association.
Under the artist name Terria Joseph, she acted in Death of a Prophet, Shadowboxer and The Big Bad Swim.

Vergil DiSalvatore is Alicia’s maternal grandmother is of Puerto Rican descent.
Vergil is also known as Nana.

Cole is Alicia’s younger stepbrother. He’s approximately 10 years younger than her.

Kerry “Krucial” Brothers is the founder and co-CEO of Krucial Keys. He produces, writes, arranges and composes songs for artists like Mario, Angie Stone, Nas, Keyshia Cole and of course Alicia Keys. He has worked with her on all of her albums. Kerry is also a Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum selling producer, a mixing engineer, a manager and an incredible MC. He’s got one solo EP, Take Da Hood Back.

Erika Rose is also part of the Krucial Keys family, as an artist and a songwriter. She co-wrote A Woman’s Worth and joined Alicia on her first tour as Road Manager.
Erika Rose also has her own solo album, more gothic punk style, called Rosegarden.