Artist: Alicia Keys
Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
Discography:
No One (Promo CDS)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
As I Am
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Unbreakable
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
The Diary of Alicia Keys
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
Songs in a Minor
Year: 2002
Tracks: 31
Alicia Keys' prescribed web site said she possesses an "old soul," and the hard facts seem to back up the implied title of wiseness and see that transcend her youth. Barely in her mid-twenties, Keys was responsible for an highly hot debut, Songs in A Minor. The release, which she wrote and produced for Clive Davis' J Records, blends diverse influences, including R&B, hip-hop, classical, and jazz. The day the album went on the grocery, it sold more than 50,000 copies. Label executives confidently predicted similarly lucky numbers racket for the first week's tally.
Around the time that Songs in A Minor was released, Keys was popping up everyplace, including an Associated Press narration. Where had she been before then? Her entire life, it seems, had been an accelerated encyclopaedism have, preparing her for a career in music. A Manhattan aboriginal, her musical gifts became unmistakable when she was five-spot eld old. As a choir major enrolled in Manhattan's Professional Performance Arts School, she farther developed her vocal talents with extra aid from a teacher. By the time she was 16, Keys graduated and entered Columbia University. Music beckoned, however, and she quickly left hand Columbia behind.
Keys was writing songs when she was 14, with vII days of forte-piano lessons under her belt by that time. In later on age, she appeared on moving picture soundtracks, including Shaft and Hands in Black. In 1998, she signed a deal with Arista Records when the company triumphed in a bidding warfare over other labels. When Davis left the caller for J Records in 1999, Keys went along. Davis promoted the careers of such artists as Carlos Santana and Whitney Houston, and character of his launch strategy for Keys was to secure exposure on BET and MTV, as well as on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her 2001 major-label debut, Songs in A Minor, hit issue one, went multi-platinum, and was followed in 2003 by another chart-topper, The Diary of Alicia Keys, which became a Grammy victor. The live CD/DVD Unplugged appeared in 2005, following her late releases to the peak of the charts. Two long time later, Keys released her third base studio full-length, the poppier As I Am, which included donation from Linda Perry and John Mayer, among others.
Miyagi
