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    Chet Capua favorited and reviewed Songs in A Minor
    
    I instantly fell in love with this album the first time it was released. It was a breath of fresh air in the midst of the candy pop music that time.
    
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    Gunx Tick Oktavia favorited and reviewed Songs in A Minor
    
    Songs In a Minor is a debut album from Alicia Keys, released on 5th June 2001.
    The hits single from this album of course *fallin'* and also *A Woman's Worth*.
    
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    shanti agusni liked and reviewed Songs in A Minor
    
    nice
    
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    K Denise Booker liked and reviewed Songs in A Minor
    
    I can listen to this entire CD without skipping a song. This cd is her best.
    
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    Derek DaFirst Allen favorited and reviewed Songs in A Minor
    
    Songs in A Minor is the debut studio album by American recording artist Alicia Keys. It was released in the United States on June 5, 2001 by J Records. After graduating from high school, Keys signed... more
    
    Songs in A Minor is the debut studio album by American recording artist Alicia Keys. It was released in the United States on June 5, 2001 by J Records. After graduating from high school, Keys signed with Columbia Records to begin her music career. She recorded an album in 1998 under the label, which they rejected. Her contract subsequently ended with Columbia after a dispute with the label, and Keys later signed with Clive Davis. An accomplished, classically-trained pianist, Keys wrote, arranged and produced majority of tracks in the album. Contrary to its title, the album contains only one song, "Jane Doe", in the key of A minor.
    
    Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics, who noted her ability to catch an old-school jazz sound and mix it with R&B and soul melodies. Keys was compared by critics to such artists as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Billie Holiday, Prince and Lauryn Hill. The album earned Keys several awards and was just the st...
    
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    Alec Fu liked and reviewed Songs in A Minor
    
    I keep on fallin in and out of love with you
    
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    Nick Gonidakis liked and reviewed Songs in A Minor
    
    Η φωνή της γαμαει!!έχει και το μοναδικό fallin!
    
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She may be beautiful, but Alicia Keys is a musician first and foremost. She plants herself firmly behind the piano keys on her debut, unlike many of the booty-waggin' junior divas who are crowding the R&B videoscape these days. Though many of the tracks on Songs in A Minor are embellished with adolescent angst, this 20-year-old's substantial, gorgeously soul-drenched alto putties the cracks between notes with astonishing ease. "Fallin'," the album's first single, showcases Keys at her best. She wails plaintively and passionately over rolling blues chords, in the tradition of the greats that this young talent clearly wants to align herself with--Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, and Aretha Franklin. She swoops and soars over the spicy, flamenco-fueled melody that opens "Mr. Mann," one of the many winning tracks gathered here. And she digs deep into a remake of the beloved Prince B-side, "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" packing more heat into her melismatic wails than most singers twice her age. --Sylvia W. Chan

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By Alicia Keys, 2001

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