Description

Born and raised in New York City, Alicia began playing music at age 5. She pursued a musical career at Columbia University and in 1998 signed to Arista Records. Her debut album, Songs In A Minor, was a multi-platinum seller, while her second album, The Diary Of Alicia Keys, would be a Grammy award winning album. The album is ideal late-night romantic music, even when the tempos are kicked up a notch as on the blaxploitation-fueled Heartburn, yet beneath that sensuous surface there is some crafty, complex musicality, particularly in how Keys blurs lines between classic soul, modern rhythms, jazz, pop melodies, and singer/songwriter sensibility. It’s an exceptionally well-constructed production, and as a sustained piece of sonic craft, it’s not just seductive, it’s a good testament to Keys’ musical strengths.

Track list:
1. Harlems Nocturne
2. Karma
3. Heartburn
4. If I Was Your Woman/Walk On By
5. You Dont Know My Name
6. If I Aint Got You
7. Diary
8. Dragon Days
9. Wake Up
10. So Simple
11. When You Really Love Someone
12. Feeling U, Feeling Me (Interlude)
13. Slow Down
14. Samsonite Man
15. Nobody Not Really