Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor (Limited Edition)

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Personnel: Alicia Keys (vocals, various instruments, piano, keyboards); Jimmy Cozier (vocals):

Gerald "G" Flowers, Arty White (guitar); Miri (violin); Isaac Hayes (Fender Rhodes piano);

Brian Cox (keyboards); Richie Good (upright bass); Tim Shider, Vic Flowers, Rufus Jackson

(electric bass); Norman Hedman (percussion); Kerry "Krucial" Brothers, Anthony Nance

(programming); Cindy Mizelle, Tammy Saunders, Andricka Hall, Paul L. Green, Kandi B (background

vocals).

Producers: Jermaine Dupri, Brian McKnight, Alicia Keys, Kerry "Krucial" Brothers.

Alicia Keys won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. SONGS IN A MINOR won the 2002 Grammy

Award for Best R&B Album. "Fallin'" won the 2002 Grammy Awards for Best Female R&B Vocal

Performance and for Best R&B Song.

Picture Roberta Flack with hip-hop trimmings or D'Angelo coming at the world from a female

perspective and you get an idea of the immense talent welling up from musical prodigy Alicia

Keys. Blessed with a soulful voice, mature-beyond-her-years songwriting, and a classically

trained command of piano, it's no wonder music mogul Clive Davis brought the 20-year old

performer over from Arista as one of the flagship artists for his new label J Records. Keys

displays impressive range on this primarily self-penned debut that finds her taking part in

arranging and/or production on every cut, once again redeeming Davis's instincts.

Besides the well-earned buzz for the gripping love-and-loathe single "Fallin'," Keys earns high

marks for fusing rap beats and vintage Aretha on a confidently delivered cover of Prince's "How

Come You Don't Call Me." Elsewhere, the native New Yorker's flow finds her traversing the same

ground as early-'70s Stevie Wonder on the thought-provoking "The Life," while "Goodbye" proves

to be the quintessential Quiet Storm kiss-off. Keys wraps up SONGS with a sanctified mix of

stride piano, lush strings, and gospel-flavored back-up singers on "Lovin' U."

Track list

Disc: 1

1. Piano and I
2. Girlfriend
3. How Come You Don't Call Me
4. Fallin'
5. Troubles
6. Rock Wit U
7. Woman's Worth
8. Jane Doe
9. Goodbye
10. Life
11. Mr. Man - Jimmy Cozier, Alicia Keys
12. Never Felt This Way
13. Butterflyz
14. Why Do I Feel So Sad
15. Caged Bird
16. Lovin' U

Bonus Disc: 2

01. Girlfriend (Krucial-Keys Sista Mix)
02. Gangsta Lovin (w-Eve)
03. Fallin (Remix feat. Busta Rhymes & Rampage)
04. A Womans Worth (Remix)
05. Butterflyz (Rogers Release Mix)
06. Troubles (J - Jay & Chris Lum Bootleg Mix)
07. How Come you Dont Call Me (Neptunes Remix)
08. Fallin (Ali Soundtrack Vension)
09. Moonlight Sonata
10. Goodbye
11. Never Felt This Way
12. Butterflyz
13. Caged Bird
14. I Got A Little Something For You
15. Someday We'll All Be Free

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