Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Do you know the chords that Alicia Keys feat. Since Alicia Keys' 2001 debut album, Songs in A Minor, was ever so slightly overpraised, expectations for her second album, 2003's The Diary of Alicia Keys, were ever so slightly too high. Alicia Keys, D'wayne Wiggins, Jermaine Paul, John Jubu Smith, Elijah Baker, Timothy Christian Riley, Carl Wheeler, Stockley Carmichael played on the recording of Diary.

Songs in A Minor not only kicked off a wave of ambitious new neo-soul songsters, it fit neatly into the movement of ambitious yet classicist new female singer/songwriters that ranged from the worldbeat-inflected pop of Nelly Furtado to the jazzy Norah Jones, whose success may not have been possible if Keys hadn't laid the groundwork with such soulful work as her hit 'Fallin'.' Such success at such a young age, even if deserved, can be too much too soon, since young songwriters showered with praise and riches may find it hard to see the world outside of their own cocoon. (2003) Alicia Keys - The Diary Of Alicia Keys (320 kbps) Duration: 01:03:04 01. Artist bio Image: 'Alicia Keys is empowering girls and women to be their truest self, whether that involves wearing makeup or not' by Tradlands is licensed under CC BY 2. The very title of The Diary of Alicia Keys - at once disarmingly simple and self-important - suggests that Keys, like Furtado, took her stardom a little too seriously and felt compelled to present her worldview unfiltered, dispensing with artistic ambiguities and leaving each song as a portrait of Alicia Keys, the woman as a young artist.

As she somewhat bafflingly says in her liner notes, 'these songs are like my daily entrees,' which likely means that these were indeed intended to play like unedited entries in a journal, a goal that she's fulfilled quite successfully, even if it does mean that the album often plays as a diary, leaving listeners in the role of observers instead of seeing themselves in the songs.

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