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Alicia Keys

10 tracks across 8 playlists

Hell's Kitchen prodigy. Classical-piano chops out of the Professional Performing Arts School, Clive-Davis-stewarded, and the most arresting R&B debut of the 2000s in 'Songs in A Minor' (2001) — five Grammys, ten million sold, 'Fallin'' as the calling card. 'The Diary of Alicia Keys,' 'As I Am,' 'Girl on Fire' kept the chart presence; the songwriting credits and protest-song interventions kept the cultural one. The 2016 decision to stop wearing makeup was its own moment. Sixteen Grammys deep, a Broadway show ('Hell's Kitchen,' 2024) about her own life, and a piano-and-voice virtuosity that still has no obvious heir.