Dustyhawk :: Broken Mirror

. Alicia Keys born and bred in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, Keys was strongly influenced by music from all different generations and disciplines including the essential music of Nina Simone, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder; classical compositions of Frédéric Chopin, Erik Satie, and Leontyne Price; and urban lyricists such as Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z and the Wu-Tang Clan.

In 2001, she hit the airwaves with Fallin’ from the Grammy Award-winning debut album Songs in A Minor. The world fell in love with Keys and in the following album, The Diary of Alicia Key… she did not disappoint her fans.