Album The Element Of Freedom was issued in 2009 and received fair reviews. As for the sound, it got a more evident pop slant, though presenting all the qualities, for which Alicia is adored by her fans. It was released in November, 2007 and immediately showed astonishingly high sales and pleasantly surprised the listeners with the hit-singles No One and Like You'll Never See Me Again. In late 2006 it was announced that Keys started her work over a new album, titled As I Am. This record brought a number of prestigious awards to Alicia. The success of the session's result, the album called Unplugged, appeared to be the highest one since the Nirvana's Unplugged In New York in 1994. The session featured two new songs by Alicia - Stolen Moments and Unbreakable. During the concert she presented new arrangements for her classical soul ballad Woman's Worth and the funky composition Heartburn, singing some covers with guest celebrities (such as Maroon 5's Adam Levine). On July, 14 2005 Keys made a live session for MTV in the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. In 2004, Keys became the best-selling female R&B artist of the year. Blige's Your Child that stayed in charts for 49 weeks, spending there more than a year. If I Ain't Got You established a new single record in the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart - it overdid Mary J. It emerged such soul singles as You Don't Know My Name, If I Ain't Got You, Diary and a hip-hop influenced Karma. By the end of 2003 the new work, titled The Diary Of Alicia Keys, was ready. The American Pop Singer was born in New York City, NY on January 25, 1981. The couple started dating in 2008 and have been together for around 13 years, and 5 months. This stylish combination brought her fame in and abroad the USA and five Grammies for the album in 2002. Alicia Keys is currently married to Swizz Beatz. The young artist's music consisted of a cute mixture of soul and pop, strongly influenced by hip-hop along with piercing vocals and confident lyrics. In 2001, Alicia released her debut album Songs In A Minor with the R&B hits Fallin' and Woman's Worth. Keys was very lucky to meet Clive Davis, who later subscribed her to J Records. By 2001 she was already featured on several soundtracks, including the 1997's blockbuster Men In Black and the comedy Dr. But the girl gave up the University to devote herself entirely to music. At 16 she already graduated from the prestigious musical facility of the Professional Performing Arts School and immediately entered the Columbian University at scholarship. Alicia's musical gift became obvious when she was about five, at seven she started playing the piano, opening for herself such classical composers as Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin, who became her favorite. She was grown up by mother in the other part of Manhattan, called Hell's Kitchen. Her mother, an actress of Irish-Italian descent, and Jamaican father divorced when Alicia was a small girl. Alicia Keys (real name Alicia Augello Cook) was born on January, 25 in 1980 in the New York City block of Harlem.

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