She has sold over 65 million records worldwide. Keys has received numerous accolades throughout her career, including 15 competitive Grammy Awards, 17 NAACP Image Awards, 12 ASCAP Awards, and an award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and National Music Publishers Association. Her sixth studio album, Here (2016), became her seventh US R&B/Hip-Hop chart topping album. In 2013, VH1 Storytellers was released as her second live album. Girl on Fire (2012) was her fifth Billboard 200 topping album, spawning the successful title track, and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album.
In 2009, Keys also collaborated with Jay Z on "Empire State of Mind", which became her fourth number-one single and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Her fourth album, The Element of Freedom (2009), became her first chart-topping album in the UK, and sold 4 million copies worldwide. She, along with Jack White, recorded "Another Way To Die" (the title song to the 22nd official James Bond film, Quantum of Solace). In 2007, Keys made her film debut in the action-thriller film Smokin' Aces. Her third album, As I Am (2007), produced the Hot 100 number-one single "No One", selling 5 million copies worldwide and earning an additional three Grammy Awards. Keys released her first live album, Unplugged (2005), and became the first female to have an MTV Unplugged album debut at number one. Her duet song "My Boo" with Usher became her second number-one single in 2004. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards. Her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), was also a critical and commercial success, spawning successful singles "You Don't Know My Name", "If I Ain't Got You" and "Diary", and selling eight million copies worldwide. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002. The album was critically and commercially successful, producing her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Fallin'" and selling over 12 million copies worldwide. After disputes with the label, she signed with Arista Records, and later released her debut album, Songs in A Minor, with J Records in 2001.
A classically-trained pianist, Keys was composing songs by age 12 and was signed at 15 years old by Columbia Records. In place of former hip-hop collaborators she has brought in blues maestro John Mayer, who complements her neatly on the wry, piano-heavy 'Lesson Learned'.Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter and musician.
Much of this album feels like a deliberate homage to the best of mainstream Seventies and Eighties soul, with a pop-savvy modern edge contributed by co-producer Linda Perry. The danger for many artists who spread themselves across such a range of pursuits is that you end up forgetting what it is they are actually good at, so it's fortunate that As I Am brings the focus back to Keys's exceptional voice, which dominates these new songs with all the force of her acknowledged influences - Aretha, Nina, Janis, Billie.Ībandoning the urban influences on Diary, which featured collaborations with rappers Nas and Rakim, As I Am returns to a purer, more traditional soul sound, ranging from the sweet, caramel-smooth 'Tell You Something' or 'Like You'll Never See Me Again' to the powerful, raw-voiced anthems 'Go Ahead', 'Sure Looks Good to Me' and 'Superwoman', in which she channels every great diva who has ever asserted the power of woman. W here does Alicia Keys find the time? Between the release of her last album, 2005's Unplugged, and this, As I Am, her first studio album since the seven-times-platinum, four Grammy-winning The Diary of Alicia Keys in 2003, she has produced a New York Times bestselling book of poetry, appeared in two Hollywood films, established her own production company, developed and co-written a teen drama series, travelled to Africa as ambassador for Aids charity Keep a Child Alive and, presumably finding herself with a spare weekend, run her first marathon.
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