To date, it has sold eight million copies worldwide. The album was hailed by critics and debuted at number one in the U.S., selling over 618,000 copies its first week of release, the sixth highest album sales by a female and second by R&B female. Keys followed up her debut with The Diary of Alicia Keys, released on December 2, 2003. Keys' work had a sound similar to 1970s soul singers such as Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder along with hip hop influences like those apparent in neo soul artists such as Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, and D'Angelo.īy that time, Keys wrote, produced, and sang background for Christina Aguilera's song "Impossible", from the latter's 2002 album Stripped. Later, on October 22, 2002, Keys released Remixed & Unplugged in A Minor, a re-issue of Songs in A Minor, which includes eight remixes and seven unplugged versions of some of the songs off her debut album.Ĭritical reviews of the album were mostly positive. "Butterflyz" was not a single but is notable as being the first song Keys ever wrote, at age fourteen. Keys and the album won five Grammy Awards in 2002, including "Best New Artist" and "Song of the Year" for "Fallin'". Another single from Songs in A Minor, "A Woman's Worth", made the top ten in the U.S. Keys performed Donny Hathaway's "Someday We'll All Be Free" at the America: A Tribute to Heroes televised benefit concert following the Septemattacks. The album's first single, "Fallin'", gained radio airplay on many different radio formats and spent six weeks at number one on the U.S. Selling over 235,000 copies in its first week (more than 50,000 of those in its first day), Songs in A Minor, released on June 5, 2001, went on to sell more than eleven million units worldwide, and established Keys' popularity both outside and inside the U.S., where she became the best-selling new artist of 2001 (as well as the best-selling R&B artist).
Augello-Cook on January 25, 1980) is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress, philanthropist, and author who has won numerous awards, including nine Grammy Awards, eleven Billboard Music Awards, and three American Music Awards. NYC History & Politics New York City HistoryĬulture of Gotham City Culture of the cityĪlicia Keys (born Alicia J. Home » New York City Famous Personalities » Info Alicia Keys Alicia Keys, R&B Singer, NYC
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