Double take! Grammy winner Alicia Keys — who is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the release of her hit debut album Songs in A Minor — posed with a new wax likeness of herself at Madame Tussauds Museum in her native Manhattan on Tuesday.

Can you believe its been 10 years since Alicia Keys splashed will release a special 10th Anniversary edition of her groundbreaking debut Songs in a Minor A on June 28.

The original edition of the album sold more than 12 million copies worldwide when it was released in the Summer of 2001 and earned Keys her first five of a career total 14 Grammy Awards.

“It’s incredibly surreal for me to be celebrating the 10th anniversary of ‘Songs in A Minor,’” Keys said in a statement Tuesday. “Looking back on the journey, I’m truly moved by my fans and friends who’ve been with me and have supported me throughout my career. This album is possibly the most precious to me, as your first album only happens once, and so ‘Songs in A Minor’ will always hold a special place in my life that’s filled with amazing memories.”

Keys — who welcomed son Egypt with her producer husband Swizz Beatz last winter — will perform a special concert in London to mark a decade since the release of A Minor. It’s just Alicia’s way of showing her gratitude to her fans in the city. The show Piano & I: A One Night Only Event With Alicia Keys will be held June 13 and release a deluxe version of the 2001 disc with 10 previously-unheard songs along with a documentary about the making of the record.

“So excited! This is my thank u for all the amazing years we’ve shared & it’s still the beginning. The future gets even better! All my love (sic),” Keys Tweeted in a message to fans this week.

She’ll also perform during the BET Awards June 26

“You could imagine how we tortured the neighbors. They would bang on the ceiling with a broom come like three or four in the morning when I’m sitting here singing passionately at the top of my voice,” Alicia says in the ad.

“I really feel like a lot of that is the reason why that album has a particular feeling that it does, because we didn’t have anything (you know). Sometimes, when you don’t have much (you know), you make the best out of what you have and it creates a vibe and an energy.”

Singing pianist Alicia Keys has teamed up with pal Eve to lay down vocals on “Speechless,” a tribute song recorded in honor of the Grammy winner’s newborn son, Egypt.

The “Fallin’” hitmaker and husband Swizz Beatz welcomed the tot on Oct. 14. The first child for Alicia, and the third/or fourth for Swizz — depending on who’s telling the story, Egypt inspired his mom to head back into the studio to record a song detailing her love for him.

Lyrics from the song include: “When I wake up in the morning, babe/Can’t believe my eyes/See this little part of destiny ’cause you’re now in my life/There ain’t no better prize that can compare to you/Ain’t no words to describe the way that I’m feeling when I look at you/I’m just speechless baby, don’t know what to say.”

And in a holiday treat for fans, A. Keys shared the single with fans and followers on her Twitter page on Tuesday.

“Speechless is a little freestyle treat 4 the holidays. It’s not a new album, not a single its something special 4 U! My gift to you… a little song about my lil guy. Love to you… let’s make 2011 incredible!!!”

It’s a boy for singing star Alicia Keys and her husband Swizz Beatz — who we affectionately like to call Toucan Sam! A. Keys and Swizzy welcomed the arrival of their son Egypt Dauode Dean at New York’s St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital late Thursday.

“I’m so thankful for everything I been blessed with in my life wowwwwww!” Beatz Tweeted of the baby news on Friday.

Little Egypt is the first child for the “Un-Thinkable” singer and the third (depending on who’s telling the story) for her superproducer hubby.

Alicia, 29, and Swizz, 31, married July 31, after a mini-scandal erupted over claims that the Harlem-bred humanitarian began sleeping with Swizz while he was still married to singer Mashonda.

A. Keys has married the man who will likely cheat on her a few babies down the road.

Here are two shots from superproducer Swizz Beatz and Grammy-winning songbird Alicia Keys’ European wedding this weekend in the southern Corsica, Piantarella in France. Alica Keys wore a Vera Wang dress complete with colored diamond tiara. The groom sported a custom suit designed Tom Ford.

The couple has been dating since 2008, after meeting during Swizzy’s ill-fated marriage to jilted R&B singer Mashonda. The are expecting their first child in November.

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Marriage and a baby aren’t the big changes on course for Alicia Keys’ career: She’s parted ways with her longtime manager.

On Friday, Keys announced that she and music bigwig Jeff Robinson have decided to end their busness partnership, which pre-dated the release of Keys’ 2001 platinum-selling debut, Songs in A-Minor. In fact, Robinson has been Alicia’s friend manager since she was just 14. He is credited as executive producer on her last four studio albums.

In a joint statement, Keys and Robinson remarked that their split was “mutually agreed upon and amicable.”

“Jeff Robinson, CEO of MBK Entertainment Inc., and 12-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys have decided to change the structure of their business relationship,” the statement read. “Robinson and Keys will continue to collaborate and produce future albums together through MBK/J Records while Alicia will now oversee all aspects of her own personal career.”

Keys will now oversee her own career through her own company AK Worldwide.

Her latest album, The Element of Freedom, has sold 1.4 million copies in the United States since last December, less than half the total for her 2007 release As I Am.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned….and then there’s Mashonda: For the first time ever, the ex-wife of Swizz Beatz is revealing the whole truth and nothing but. In a candid two-part interview, R&B singer Mashonda, 29, opens up to VIBE Magazine’s Tracy Garraud about her turbulent union with the hip-hop superproducer, the affair that left her crushed, and why she’s more resilient than ever.

Mashonda claims Swizz admitted that he was having an affair with “Un-Thinkable” star Alicia Keys after she found documentation of their trysts in various hotels back in 2008. The couple went public with their romance at the Gotham Magazine Gala in March, much to the chagrin of his ex-wife.

Vibe: I know it was very important for you to sit down with Alicia if she was going to be around your son. Safe to assume that happened?
Mashonda: “When I wrote her that Twitter letter everybody wanted to say things like ‘Oh, what do you need to meet her for? It’s not her problem, it’s Swizz’s. I’m like, ‘You have a kid, go through what I went through and then talk to me.’ I’m not having my son around anybody I don’t know. I don’t give a [fig] who you are and how much money you have and what management he’s going to be under when he visits you. I need to see you and I need you to see how serious I am about him. And that’s what happened. We had to sit down, and I told her how I felt. I didn’t mention anything else, it was all about my son and it was fine after that. I’m not going sit and talk to [them] about what happened between the three of us. This is about my son.”

Vibe: How did you introduce [your son] Kasseem to Alicia?
Mashonda: “This is daddy’s friend Alicia… Daddy’s girlfriend.’ I don’t want him to ever go over there feeling uncomfortable.”

Vibe: When did this meeting finally take place?
Mashonda: “It took a good year and a half. I think that only happened in March.”

Vibe: How was Alicia’s demeanor?
Mashonda: “She just listened.”

Vibe: This all sounds like a really awkward gathering…
Mashonda: “It wasn’t awkward; I wouldn’t have done it if I wasn’t ready. I said what I had to say as a mom. It was a whole sit down dinner. So you know how intimate that is. There are certain things we have to do as women in order to move forward.”

Vibe: You mentioned there being infidelity prior to Alicia. What happened?
Mashonda: “His older son Nasir was born while we were together. We were living together [and] I was pregnant at the time. I stressed so much because I found out [the other woman] was pregnant… it put me into pre-labor,” she explains.

“I lost my baby in 2000 when I was five-and-a-half months. It was tragedy. Nothing compares to losing a child. That [stuff] put me into a two-year depression, it took me six years to even try [having a baby] again. I was afraid. So not only did I lose my baby, but now I was waiting for this other woman to have hers. Because of what happened to me, he wanted me to name the baby. He wanted a Muslim name and I loved the name Nasir. The first time I met Nasir we fell in love and whenever we had visitation he was my baby. I took care of him. We did everything that I would do with [Kaseem]. And when Swizz did that interview with DJ Enuff, he mentioned that I made him choose between his marriage and his son, and I was like ‘What?!’That kills me the most. He was saying these things because these are probably the things he told her,” Mashonda reflected.

“Obviously something is wrong with his morals, but I don’t play with kids. Even now with Alicia’s pregnancy, I believe she deserves privacy. I hate hearing people wish bad stuff on her and the baby. I’m like ‘People shut up!’ This is a child, an actual life… someone who has nothing to do with what’s going on right now. I wish her the most successful, healthy pregnancy in the world, that child is going to be my son’s brother or sister and that’s the only way to look at it.”

Vibe: How did you even find out that [Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz] were engaged and she was pregnant?
Mashonda: “I knew these things for a couple of months… I never talked to him about it though. It’s his life, but people talk. Nobody is nobody’s friend when it comes to stuff like this. There are people in their circles that talk and it gets back to me and I’m like ‘Wow, okay.’ I still feel like we should tell each other…No, I don’t care. I don’t give him the vibe that I care, so he wouldn’t feel obligated to tell me.”

Newly-engaged parents-to-be Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys will welcome their new bundle of joy in a new pad. The couple plunked down $14 million for a Crosby St. penthouse duplex in the Soho section of Alicia’s native Manhattan.

Rumor has it that the 5,818 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms pad was originally priced at $19,500,000.

TheRealEstalker.com writes: “This spectacular duplex penthouse loft with 6,000 square feet of interior space and 3,000 square feet of outdoor space has been newly redesigned and renovated with no expense spared to create the most luxurious and important property downtown…A suspended glass staircase leads to the 2nd level which features the Master Bedroom w/ a sitting area, a huge Master Bathroom and 3 additional bedrooms each with their own bath. Another glass staircase leads to an enormous roof deck w/ a built-in barbecue….”

Alicia is expecting the couple’s first child together this fall.