Alicia Keys Splits with Manager

Alicia Keys has parted ways with her longtime manager.
Alicia Keys Splits with Manager: Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys has parted ways with her longtime manager Jeff Robinson. Robinson had been involved in her career for more than a decade. Keys will now oversee her own career. Robinson and Keys announced the news in a joint statement, which said that the move was “mutually agreed upon and amicable.” Keys’s most recent album, “The Element of Freedom,” has been critically acclaimed but hasn’t sold as well as some of her past releases. [Billboard]
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