#ALICIA KEYS ALBUM COVER GIRL ON FIRE TV#

She tells me her Italian-Irish mother, Terria Joseph, who raised her single-handedly, juggled three jobs and got Keys practising on a secondhand piano aged seven, is вЂњwho I got some of my grit energy fromвЂќ. KeysвЂ™s unlikely trajectory has been widely documented, most recently by Keys herself in her 2020 autobiography, More Myself: a Journey. Oprah calls herself AliciaвЂ™s вЂmother-sister-friendвЂ™. вЂI could feel the power of her presenceвЂ™: Alicia Keys with Oprah Winfrey in 2019. Keys is still awestruck that she, and the album that brought her global fame, still have a presence today. She won five of them and has since gone on to win 10 more. The album sold millions (10.5m physical sales and 645.8m streams to date) and Keys was nominated in six Grammy award categories. (Winfrey, who calls herself AliciaвЂ™s вЂњmother-sister-friendвЂќ has since said, вЂњEven before she belted out the first soulful notes of the lyrics that made her famous, I could feel the power of her presence.вЂќ) Following the God-like endorsement of the influential Winfrey (and the backing of Clive Davis, the legendary music producer who gave Keys her big break), the song topped the charts.

#ALICIA KEYS ALBUM COVER GIRL ON FIRE TV#

Looking at a barefaced Alicia Keys, hair pulled back into a bun, one canвЂ™t help marvel at how much she still resembles the 20-year-old who made her 2001 TV debut singing Falling on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her voice вЂ“ smooth, deep and slightly gravelly вЂ“ calls out, вЂњGood morning!вЂќ and as she inches in to take her position close to the screen, she smiles so fully that every crevice of her face lights up. She is sitting on a light-coloured sofa in front of a floor-to-ceiling wall of immaculately lined-up books. When she appears on screen there is no вЂњonionвЂќ, no entourage, no shock absorber. I am waiting to interview Keys via Zoom on the day she launches a special edition of Songs in A Minor, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking award-winning debut album that started it all. A formidable, multi-layer of managers, confidants, coaches, assistants, a personal film crew and various people with ambiguous job functions formed around Keys, like a вЂњshock absorberвЂќ. An article written in the Guardian by a journalist who was on the promotional junket described the machinery of her management system at the time, as functioning вЂњlike an onionвЂќ. вЂњI just wanted to remind everybody that at one point in our lives we were changed by music to such a degree that it became a passion to the point that there is nothing else that we could do in our lives.вЂќДЄlicia has truly found comfort in herself, вЂњI have arrived at a place in myself that I am comfortable being exactly who I am in this moment and sharing it with no reservations.вЂќД¬heck out the video belowвЂ¦ The album will hit stores on November 27, prior to its release, the title track and first single will hit radio and iTunes on September 4, and she will perform the song at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards on September 6, and perform for VH1вЂ™s вЂњStorytellersвЂќ on November 12.I n 2016, when Alicia Keys released her sixth studio album, Here, she celebrated the launch with a gig in New YorkвЂ™s Times Square.

вЂњThe love of music, and that visceral thing that happens to people when they hear something that can, just change everything, said Keys.

As the R&B superstar preps for the release of her forthcoming album Girl On Fire, she releases a personal, behind-the-scenes visual of the day she delivered her album to the heads of RCA and celebrated the forthcoming release.

Alicia Keys is bringing fans into her world, and into her creative mind more so than ever.

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