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    As I Am

    You have to admire Alicia Keys' commitment to her street-nice vision. In the year Ciara grew up, Rihanna left the islands and Jill Scott explored the joy of sex, the twenty-six-year-old's third studio album envisions a hip-hop generation ready for its own Roberta Flack. Despite substantial input fro...

    2007 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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Biography

Barely out of her teens, singer, songwriter and classically trained pianist Alicia Keys stormed the pop charts in the early 2000s with a mature-beyond-her-age mix of soul, jazz and hip-hop. With an extra push from an appearance on Oprah the day before the release of her debut, Songs in A Minor (Number One, 2001), the album sold 235,000 copies in its first week. By the end of the year it had...

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