On top of selling a reported 30 million+ records worldwide and taking home a total of 15 Grammy Awards (to name just a couple of her most notable accomplishments), she also. A classically-trained pianist and award-winning singer-songwriter, Keys is one of the most revered talents of our time. I’ve been waiting to tell you this for so long!! Icon Alicia Keys celebrates her 41st birthday today. In June, Keys celebrated the 20th anniversary of her groundbreaking debut album, Songs In A Minor. In the same month, she also announced her four-part docu-series, NOTED: Alicia Keys The Untold Stories, which premiered exclusively on YouTube Originals in September. The impending project will follow Keys’ 2020 album, Alicia, which featured appearances from Jill Scott, Khalid, Miguel, Sampha, SiR, Snoh Aaelgra, Tierra Whack and more. She performed the track at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards in September. Keys will include the previously shared single “LALA (Unlocked)” featuring rapper Swae Lee, produced by Mike WiLL Made It. “So, you get to vibe with two sides of me.” On Is It Insane, Keys dives deep into vintage jazz for a torch ballad of sinister, obsessive jealousy, while Billions drifts off into the space funk cosmos for a gauzy evocation of eternal romantic dedication.“There’s two sides to every story, and there’s two sides to every song on Keys,” Keys said in a promotional video.
The production here crosses epic, John Barry-style Bond balladry with a dark trip hop drama evoking Portishead, as Keys insists “You’ve got to put the time into timeless”.
She lays out her artistic manifesto on the noirish Nat King Cole, which is not so much a tribute to the great crooner as a dedication to becoming (like his theme song) “unforgettable”. Using her considerable classical piano skills as a songwriting base, with her fluid yet emotionally raw voice travelling from resonant low notes to etheric heights, she joins the dots between hip hop, jazz, old school R&B, sci-fi club bangers and intimate balladry. This is the first time the singer-songwriter who has sold more than 90 million records worldwide will perform in the Kingdom, at the majestic epicenter of art. If anything, Keys’s eighth album is just too multifarious to fit into straightforward commercial boxes. Multi-Grammy-award winner and American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys is set to perform for One Night Only at the awe-inspiring concert hall Maraya in AlUla, Saudi Arabia. But there has been no diminishment in her talent as she follows last year’s critically acclaimed ALICIA with the extravagant double album KEYS (see what she did there?).
It has been nearly 10 years since 2012’s Girl on Fire landed her a significant hit single and chart-topping album. It was originally slated to launch in June 2020 but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Her world tour in support of her seventh album, ALICIA, has been rescheduled for 2022. At 40, Keys may no longer be the hottest contemporary female singer-songwriter on the planet. Alicia Keys is ready to get back on the road and perform her new and timeless hits. Pop music relentlessly seeks out the next big thing. Alicia Augello-Cook (born Januin Manhattan, New York, U.S.A.), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. The two performed Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love together (with Keys on piano) at Keys’s annual charity ball in 2008, when Adele’s star was still rising. And if this reminds you of anyone, then you shouldn’t be surprised to learn that Adele once told Rolling Stone that hearing Alicia Keys as a youngster was “life defining”. Vocalist Patrick Stump was inspired by 'the creepiness' of the strings. Her 2021 debut album, Songs in A Minor, sold 12 million copies and saw her hailed as the saviour of soul music. Fall Out Boys 'The Phoenix' samples the classical work 'Allegro Non Troppo,' which was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1941. Her breakout single (Fallin’) was a huge global smash, a heartbreakingly romantic piano ballad with a preternatural, octave-busting vocal that touched Aretha Franklin heights, with songwriting that drew comparisons to Carole King. She burst onto the world stage aged just 19. Alicia Keys is known for her incredible vocals which is often matched with her skilful piano playing.