(He also name checked Keys in “Thunder on the Mountain” on the album he released that year, Modern Times.) And while her peers struggled with the pressures that followed their breakthroughs, the range Keys displayed on her debut continued to expand throughout the decade in her work with everyone from Jack White to Jay-Z-and earned her a shout-out from Bob Dylan: “There’s nothing about that girl I don’t like,” he told Rolling Stone in 2006. 1, sold 11 million copies, and won five Grammys. Powered by the gospel-flavored single “Fallin’,” though, Songs in A Minor entered the charts at No. Even though such neo-soul artists as Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo had expanded the parameters of modern R&B at the turn of the new century, no one knew quite what to do with this cornrowed piano prodigy from New York’s Hell’s Kitchen who opened her record playing Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” over a rough hip-hop beat. When then 20-year-old Keys released her debut album, Songs in A Minor, in 2001, she had already been on and off two record labels. I didn’t want to be all dressed up, all made up-I wanted to be myself, which hadn’t been done before.” “We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. “I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew,” says Alicia Keys.
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