Alicia Keys reminisces about the one-bedroom apartment she was raised in with throwback snaps

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Alicia Keys was in a reminiscing mood on Wednesday, as she shared a number of throwback holiday snaps from her one bedroom childhood apartment.

The Fallin' singer, 41, contemplated her humble beginnings, writing: 'Wow! This is the one bedroom apartment that my mother raised me in!

Apt #11-L. I’ll never forget.' In the snaps little Alicia - who now lives in a $20million 11,000 square-foot mansion in La Jolla, California - can be seen posing next to Christmas trees and opening gifts throughout the years.

Reminiscing: Alicia Keys was in a reminiscing mood on Wednesday, as she shared a number of throwback holiday snaps from her one bedroom childhood apartmentContinuing with the caption, the Grammy Award winner explained the reason for why the management would not give the family a two bedroom apartment.  'The building wouldn’t give us a 2 bedroom cause I was a girl, so the room was sometimes my mothers, sometimes mine, most of the time ours (depending on my age).''Every Christmas we put the tree right there in that corner in our small but cozy living room and we would decorate it together, just the 2 of us, while she played jazz albums on a record player.' Humble: The singer, 41 - who now lives in a $20million mansion in La Jolla, California - contemplated her humble beginnings with a number of photos from her childhood home; Pictured December 8, 2022 Memories: 'Wow!