Complex sentence: Keys' father is African American and her mother is of Italian, Scottish, and Irish descent.Alicia has expressed that she was comfortable with her multiracial heritage because she felt she was able to "relate to different cultures".
Split into simpler sentences: Keys'father is African American and her mother is of Italian, Scottish, and Irish descent. I'm definitely black and Italian and a little Irish or Scottish (European American)--Keys has expressed that she was comfortable with her multiracial heritage because she felt she was able to "relate to different cultures".