|  Nine-time
Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys returns with her long-awaited third
studio album, As I Am, on J Records. 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!
“No One”
was written and produced by Keys, longtime collaborator Kerry “Krucial”
Brothers and Dirty Harry. The Justin Francis/The Saline Project-directed
video for “No One” was recently shot in LA.
Her first studio album
since the critically-acclaimed 2003’s The Diary of Alicia
Keys, Alicia showcases her songwriting and producing talents on
all 13 songs on As I Am, but also joins forces on several tracks
with her longtime collaborator Kerry “Krucial” Brothers,
award-winning songwriters Linda Perry, John Mayer, Harold Lilly,
Sean Garrett and producers Mark Batson, Dirty Harry, Swizz Beatz
and Jack Splash.
One of the few artists
who can capture an old-school vibe and make if feel refreshingly
new, Alicia tackles this feat once again with an album she describes
as “Janis Joplin meets Aretha Franklin.” Punctuated
with rich powerful vocals, Alicia’s vocal muses can be felt
on songs ranging from the anthemic “Superwoman” and
power-charged “Go Ahead” to the misty-eyed ballad “Like
You Never See Me Again” and the soulful “Sure Looks
Good To Me.”
 Tonight
on CBS’s Fashion Rocks, Alicia mesmerizes the audience with
a soul-stirring performance of “The Thing About Love”
from As I Am and joins the incredible Carlos Santana in an amazing
duet of “Black Magic Woman.” Keys will also rock the
MTV Video Music Awards on September 9 with a national televised
debut performance of her new hit single “No One.”
Since the 2001 debut
of Songs In A Minor, the New York native has built an unparalleled
repertoire of hits and accomplishments with over 20 million albums
sold worldwide! Songs In A Minor, which spawned her signature hit
“Fallin,” sold more than 10 million copies worldwide
and garnered five Grammy Awards including Best New Artist and Best
R&B Album. Alicia’s follow-up disc, 2004’s The Diary
of Alicia Keys, which is currently 7 times platinum, captured four
Grammy Awards and featured the hits “If I Ain’t Got
You,” “You Don’t Know My Name,” and “Karma.”
With the 2005 release of Unplugged, which has sold 2 million copies,
Keys became the first female R&B artist to have three consecutive
#1 debuts on the Billboard 200 album chart in as many releases.
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