Alicia Keys
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Interview by Maureen Paton, Rock's Backpages Audio, 21 January 2010
The R&B songthrush talks about her new album, The Element of Freedom; how she copes with fame; her spirituality; being a New Yorker; her family background; being blessed with love, and about her future plans in film and sound production.
File format: mp3; file size: 29.2mb, interview length: 30' 23" sound quality: ****
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Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
Classically trained pianist harks back to R&B's pre-Timbaland roots with sublime debut album. ...
Review by Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, 25 June 2001
IN THE AFTERMATH of Jill Scott's surprising breakthrough last year and in what is year four of the Badu evolution, there have been several remarkable ...
"I love Chopin… He's my dawg": Alicia Keys
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 2 November 2001
Stevie loves her, Oprah's after her and Prince is always on the phone. As Alicia Keys prepares to storm the UK charts, Ian Gittins meets ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, February 2002
It's a long way from New York's 42nd Street to the 44th annual Grammy Awards. But after seven years of juggling Harlem street life, fractious ...
Alicia Keys: Alicia in Wonderland
Profile and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Inside Entertainment, Summer 2002
SHE HAS THE hooks and the looks – and depth and diversity too. Barely out of her teens, Alicia Keys may be the most sophisticated ...
Alicia Keys: The Diary Of Alicia Keys
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, January 2004
FOR ALL THE international superstars and great songs latter-day R&B's spawned, its tally of indispensable albums is shamefully low. ...
Alicia Keys: The Diary of Alicia Keys
Review by Steve LaBate, Paste, 1 February 2004
AT THE TOP OF THE POP WORLD these days, it’s hard enough to find an artist who can sing well without the aid of ProTools. ...
Profile and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, XXL Hip Hop Soul, Spring 2004
She bodied the sophomore jinx in one week, proving that ALICIA KEYS ain't goin' nowhere no time soon. Walk with the New York songbird through ...
Interview by Angus Batey, The Times, 10 November 2007
A family death hit her hard but Alicia Keys found inspiration to go on — on top of the Great Pyramid ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, dotmusic.co.uk, 19 November 2007
THERE HAS to be a point where the wheels come off Alicia Keys' wagon. No one can be that good at everything. ...
The Girl's On Fire: Why Alicia Keys Is Such Hot Poperty
Interview by Angus Batey, Mail On Sunday, 30 June 2008
Alicia Keys is red hot right now: Prince wants to be her towel roadie, Dylan wrote a song about her, and Halle Berry head-hunted her ...
Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 26 May 2010
HOOKING UP with Jay-Z for 'Empire State of Mind' has elevated Alicia Keys to a level of stardom where it will no longer do to ...
Interview by Alan Light, W, June 2011
WHAT'S THE first thing you think of when you think back ten years to the days of Songs in A Minor? The first thing I think ...
12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief: Madison Square Garden, New York
Live Review by Alan Light, MSN.com, December 2012
IT MIGHT HAVE been the single greatest gathering of talent for a rock show – or it might just have been, as Mick Jagger put ...
Review by Johnny Sharp, MOJO, January 2013
The first lady of noughties soul gets risky. ...
Alicia Keys: The New Priestess Of Soul
Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, MOJO, March 2013
Raised in Hell's Kitchen and classically trained, Alicia Keys was a teenage musical misfit who tried her best "to be a boy". Over a decade ...
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