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Alicia Keys

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ComposerLyricist b. 1981

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. A classically trained pianist, Keys began composing songs at the age of 12 and was signed by Columbia Records at 15. After disputes with the label, she signed with J Records to release her debut studio album, Songs in A Minor (2001). Met with critical acclaim and commercial success, the album sold over 12 million copies worldwide and won five awards at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards. It contained the Billboard Hot 100-number one single "Fallin'". Her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), was met with continued success, selling eight million units worldwide…

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  • Scansion issues occur in many pop songs. Personally, I think Alicia Keys scans the words ‘New York’ wrongly in her big hit ‘Empire State of Mind’. She made a very conscious decision to set the words ‘New’ and ‘York’ with the stress on ‘York’ not ‘New’, and this gives the song a very strange-sounding, but highly distinctive, hook. Whether…ebooks/Woolford, Julian/How Musicals Work_ And How to Write Your Own (Theatrebook) - Julian Woolford.txt
  • Dietz/Mort Swinsky, Knitting Factory Entertainment, Alicia Keys; Million Dollar Quartet Produced by Relevant Theatricals, John Cossette Productions, American Pop Anthology, Broadway Across America, James L. Nederlandertheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2009-2010 Season, v. 66 (Willis).txt

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