Singfest 08 - Alicia Keys
By Serge Norguard. Filed in Events, Musicology, review/preview |
. 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.
Now, this is the most awesome part of all…. at Singfest 2008, You can get to watch, listen and feel the keys by the Keys herself. Serge is expecting to hear her play songs from her first album up to her latest album, which is titled As I Am.
As I Am, is Keys’ third studio album which since The Diary of Alicia Keys. Within 10 hours of being serviced to radio, Alicia first single, “No One,” became one of the fastest moving and highest charting single on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. This also marks the highest first single debut for a female artist in 2007 on the R&B Monitor’s Urban Mainstream chart!
What are you waiting for ? Get prepared and head on for Singfest and also do get her albums.
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