Alicia Keys Songs In A Minor (2001)

June 2001 is the year of the debut album of Alicia Keys, Songs in a Minor, published by J Records Clive Davis. The album is a global success: it debuts to number 1 of the American classifies “Billboard Hot 200”, sells more than 235.000 copies in the first week (of which 50,000 solo the first day) and more than 11 million all over the world (7 million solds in the USA). With this great result, Alicia catches up great popularity abroad also, becoming the artist who sells the most in 2001 (beyond that the feminine artist sold R' n'B more in America of 2001).

Her first single , Fallin', is an enormous succees, as it remains for six weeks to the first place of it classifies American POP and it catches up the summit also of that R'n'b. The singer earns visibility also with numerous television apparitions, between which a remarkable interpretation of Someday we'll all be free of Hathaway Women to the television concert of America beneficence: To Tribute to Heroes, held as a result of the 11 the terrorist attacks of september 2001. The single second, To Woman's Worth, enters in Top 5, catching up the third position. With the 5 album Grammy Awards in 2002 gains, constituting a record for such number of prizes in a single evening. The album comes assigned two to them of the four more important: “best artist” (Best New Artist) and “Song of the year” (Song of the Year) for Fallin'. Later on, 6 March 2002, comes published Remixed & Unplugged in a Minor, a reprint of Songs in a Minor, containing eight remix and seven versions unplugged of some songs to outside of the debut album.

The book reviews have been generally positive. The work of Alicia Keys comes approached to that of singers soul years like Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye till having infuences hip hop and new soul from artists like Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and Of Angel. The cd same Anymore, a b-side contains cover of the piece of Prince How Like U Don't Call Me of 1999.

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