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Alicia Keys concert
8 July 2008
Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys (born Alicia J. Augello-Cook on January 25, 1980) is an American
R&B and soul singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress,
philanthropist, and author who has sold over twenty million albums worldwide and
has won numerous awards, including nine Grammy Awards, eleven Billboard Music
Awards, and three American Music Awards.
Selling over 235,000 copies in its first week (more than 50,000 of those on 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). 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. Billboard Hot 100. Keys performed Donny Hathaway's
"Someday We'll All Be Free" at the America: A Tribute to Heroes televised
benefit concert following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Alicia Keys
Discography:
2001: Songs in A Minor
2003: The Diary of Alicia Keys
2005: Unplugged
2007: As I Am
Alicia Keys website:
Official Alicia website:
www.aliciakeys.com
Alicia Keys concert
here (Ticketmaster)
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