Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys will try her hand at acting in a new movie about piano prodigy Philippa Schuyler. The Associated Press reports that the film will be produced by Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry, who own the rights to the biopic, and Marc Platt, who produced the Tony-nominated Broadway show Wicked.

The as-yet-unnamed movie will chronicle the life of Schuyler, who was the only child of George Schuyler, a black journalist and author, and Josephine Cogdell, a white artist and writer.

Philippa Schuyler was born in 1939 and became a child prodigy who played the piano at Carnegie Hall and around the world. She was extremely talented, but battled racism, which curtailed her achievements. She eventually became a journalist and was killed in 1967 in a plane crash in Vietnam.

Keys will have some personal experience to draw from for the role–she is a classically-trained pianist and is also biracial. Like Schuyler, her mother is white and her father is black.

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